Gabriel R. Ricci

Morality and the Literary Imagination

Volume 36, Religion and Public Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In a letter to Boccaccio, Petrarch extolled the virtue of poetry and letters for promoting an understanding of both human nature and morals

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9781138528390
• ISBN-10: 1138528390
• Artikelnr.: 50494779

Autorenporträt

Gabriel R. Ricci

Inhaltsangabe

1: A New Age of Reason; 2: The Great Yearning: Spiritual Mysticism and
Aesthetic Morality-Vedanta, the Perennial Philosophy, Schopenhauer, and
Iris Murdoch; 3: The Not So Black and White World of Brothers: Morality and
Filial Piety in the Works of Lu Xun and Lao She; 4: On the Fundamentalist
Imagination: Toward the Poetics of Truth in Modernism; 5: The Form of
Emptiness: Aesthetic Ambivalence and Moral Obligation in Charles Johnson's
Middle Passage; 6: George Orwell on the Moral Obligations of Intellectuals;
7: "Politics has Become Too Serious a Matter to be Left to the
Politicians": T.S. Eliot and George Orwell; 8: Wyndham Lewis: A Portrait of
the Artist as Ideologue; 9: The Moral Value of Gothic Sublimity; 10: Aldous
Huxley: Anglo-American Skeptic-Become-Mystic in Search of the Moral
Ground-The Fictional Path; 11: Earthen, Brazen, and Golden: A Moral
Taxonomy of Literature