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Values of literature /
Why we read literature and why we should read literature are age-old questions that have, in recent years, gained unprecedented scope and intensity, against the backdrop of what has been perceived as a world-wide crisis in the humanities. While scholars frequently discuss different types of value se...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston [Massachusetts] :
Brill Rodopi,
2015.
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| Colección: | Value inquiry book series. Philosophy, literature, and politics ;
Volume 278. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Values of Literature
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction : Why We Read: The Plural Values of Literature
- Part One: Literature and Ethics
- One: A Sense of History-A Sense of the Possible: Nussbaum and Hermeneutics on the Ethical Potential of Literature
- Two: The Moral and the Fable: A Fluid Relationship in Artistic Literature
- Three: From Representation to Performance: A Bakhtinian Perspective on Literature and Ethics
- Four: What Can Literature Do? Jorge Semprun, Militancy, and the Scandal of Art
- Part Two: Cognitive, Affective, and Social Values.
- Five: Cognitive Science and the Value of Literature for Life
- Six: "The Extension of our Sympathies": George Eliot's Aesthetic Theory and Narrative Technique as a Key to the Affective, Cognitive, and Social Value of Literature
- Seven: How Are Literary Genres Valuable? A Value-Pluralist Approach to Genres
- Part Three: Questioning and Constructing the Values of Literature
- Eight: The Role of Debate in Creating the Aesthetic, Cultural, and Social Value of Literature
- Nine: Can We Do Wrong with Fiction? Empathy, Exclusion, and Enmity in The Turner Diaries
- Ten: The Literature Myth.
- About the Authors
- Index.