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By Kenneth Asher

lately there was a renewed curiosity within the moral price of literature. even though, how precisely does literature give a contribution to our moral realizing? In Literature, Ethics, and the feelings, Kenneth Asher argues that literary students may still find this question within the lengthy and numerous background of ethical philosophy. at the foundation of his personal studying of this historical past, Asher contends for the centrality of feelings in our moral lives and indicates how literature - novels, poetry, and drama - can every one give a contribution to the most important emotional figuring out. person chapters on T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and George Bernard Shaw provide distinct analyses of the way this contribution takes form even in modernist authors who try and reconfigure the very nature of the self.

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