Values of literature /

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...

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Other Authors: Meretoja, Hanna, 1977-, Isomaa, Saija., Lyytikäinen, Pirjo., Malmio, Kristina.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill Rodopi. c2015.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 278.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.

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Literature > Philosophy.
Values in literature.
Literature and society.

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Call Number: PN45 .V259 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Hanna Meretoja , Saija Isomaa , Pirjo Lyytikäinen and Kristina Malmio
  • Introduction : Why We Read: The Plural Values of Literature /
  • Hanna Meretoja and Pirjo Lyytikäinen
  • A Sense of History-A Sense of the Possible: Nussbaum and Hermeneutics on the Ethical Potential of Literature /
  • Hanna Meretoja
  • The Moral and the Fable: A Fluid Relationship in Artistic /
  • Angela Locatelli
  • From Representation to Performance: A Bakhtinian Perspective on Literature and Ethics /
  • Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan
  • What Can Literature Do? Jorge Semprun, Militancy, and the Scandal of Art /
  • Colin Davis
  • Cognitive Science and the Value of Literature for Life /
  • Vera Nünning
  • "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 /
  • Ansgar Nünning
  • How Are Literary Genres Valuable? A Value-Pluralist Approach to Genres /
  • Saija Isomaa
  • The Role of Debate in Creating the Aesthetic, Cultural, and Social Value of Literature /
  • Kristina Malmio
  • Can We Do Wrong with Fiction? Empathy, Exclusion, and Enmity in The Turner Diaries /
  • Tero Eljas Vanhanen
  • The Literature Myth /
  • Magnus Persson
  • About the Authors /
  • Hanna Meretoja , Saija Isomaa , Pirjo Lyytikäinen and Kristina Malmio
  • Index /
  • Hanna Meretoja , Saija Isomaa , Pirjo Lyytikäinen and Kristina Malmio.