Values of literature
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden, Netherlands Boston [Massachusetts]
Brill Rodopi
2015
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| Series: | Value Inquiry Book Series. Philosophy, Literature, and Politics
Volume 278 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| Online Access: | Aggregator, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=886847
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| Author Notes: | edited by Hanna Meretoja, Saija Isomaa, Pirjo Lyytikäinen, Kristina Malmio |
| Summary: | About the Authors -- Index 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 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9789401212052 |