Literature, ethics, and the emotions / Kenneth Asher (SUNY Geneseo).

By:

Asher, Kenneth George [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781107185951
1107185955

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DDC classification:

801 As35L 23

LOC classification:

PN49 .A683 2017

Contents:

Literature as the recalibration of emotions -- T.S. Eliot's emotive theory of poetry -- D.H. Lawrence: primal consciousness and the function of emotion -- Epistemology and ethics in Virginia Woolf -- George Bernard Shaw: history as cosmic comedy -- Conclusion.

Summary: Recently there has been a renewed interest in the ethical value of literature. However, how exactly does literature contribute to our ethical understanding? Asher argues that literary scholars should locate this question in the long and various history of moral philosophy.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Recently there has been a renewed interest in the ethical value of literature. However, how exactly does literature contribute to our ethical understanding? Asher argues that literary scholars should locate this question in the long and various history of moral philosophy.

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