Literature, ethics, and the emotions
By: Kenneth Asher, SUNY Geneseo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781107185951
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Literature and morals; Language and emotions; Literature and society; English literature; Ethics in literature; History and criticism; Emotions in literature; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literature as the recalibration of emotions; title: T.S. Eliot's emotive theory of poetry; title: D.H. Lawrence: primal consciousness and the function of emotion; title: Epistemology and ethics in Virginia Woolf; title: George Bernard Shaw: history as cosmic comedy; title: Conclusion.