Kenneth Asher

Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions addresses the issue of what precisely literature can contribute to our ethical awareness that philosophy cannot.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781107185951
• ISBN-10: 1107185955
• Artikelnr.: 48065495

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Asher holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Currently he is Professor of English and Philosophy at the State University of New York, Geneseo where he serves as Chairman of the Humanities Committee. He has also taught at Stanford University, California and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of T. S. Eliot and Ideology (Cambridge, 1995).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Literature as the recalibration of emotions
2. T. S. Eliot's emotive theory of poetry
3. D. H. Lawrence: primal consciousness and the function of emotion
4. Epistemology and ethics in Virginia Woolf
5. George Bernard Shaw: history as cosmic comedy
Conclusion.