Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory ReaderStephen K. George Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 - 401 strani Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine and confront the ultimate questions of life? Do the human activities of storytelling and complex moral decision-making have a deep connection? What are the moral responsibilities of the artist, critic, and reader? What can religious perspectives--from Catholic to Protestant to Mormon--contribute to literary criticism? What do we mean when we talk about ethical criticism and how does this differ from the common notion of censorship? Thirty well known contributors reflect on these questions including: literary theorists Marshall Gregory, James Phelan, and Wayne Booth; philosophers Martha Nussbaum, Richard Hart, and Nina Rosenstand; and authors John Updike, Charles Johnson, Flannery O'Connor, and Bernard Malamud. Divided into four sections, with introductory matter and questions for discussion, this accessible anthology represents the most crucial work today exploring the interdisciplinary connections among literature, religion and philosophy. |
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Ethical Criticism and Literary Theory | 1 |
Premises on Art and Morality | 3 |
The Moral Connections of Literary Texts | 11 |
Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be Simple | 23 |
Ethical Criticism What It Is and Why It Matters | 37 |
Against Ethical Criticism | 63 |
Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism? | 79 |
The Absence of the Ethical Literary Theory and Ethical Theory | 99 |
Imaginative Writing and the Jewish Experience | 219 |
The Problem of Evil in Fiction | 225 |
Poetry Politics and Morality | 231 |
Art and Ethics? | 239 |
What Violence in Literature Must Teach Us | 241 |
Ethics and Literature | 251 |
Readers and Ethical Criticism | 263 |
The Case against Huck Finn | 265 |
Evaluative Discourse A New Turn toward the Ethical | 107 |
The Moral and the Aesthetical Literary Study and the Social Order | 115 |
Philosophy Religion and Literature | 129 |
Reading for Life | 131 |
The Ancient Quarrel Literature and Moral Philosophy | 139 |
Stories and Morals | 153 |
The Absence of Stories Filling the Void in Ethics | 165 |
Literature and the Catholic Perspective | 173 |
Literature and Protestantism | 181 |
Something to Measure By Quaker Values in Literature | 189 |
Literary Criticism and Religious Values | 197 |
Writers Responsibilities | 211 |
A Writers Duty | 213 |
The Writers Moral Sense | 215 |
Why We Still Need Huckleberry Finn | 273 |
Huckleberry Finn An Amazing Troubling Book | 279 |
The Ethical Dimensions of Richard Wrights Native Son | 289 |
Sethes Choice Beloved and the Ethics of Reading | 299 |
Steinbeck Johnson and the MasterSlave Relationship | 315 |
Censorship and the Classroom | 329 |
Notes | 339 |
Glossary | 369 |
Selected Bibliography | 377 |
Permissions | 379 |
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About the Contributors | 397 |
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