TY  - BOOK
AU  - Asher,Kenneth George
TI  - Literature, ethics, and the emotions
SN  - 9781107185951
AV  - PN49 .A683 2017
U1  - 801 As35L 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Literature and morals
KW  - Ethics in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - 20th century
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -