Agents and Lives
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- Author: S. L. Goldberg
- Date Published: June 2009
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521112444
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Agents and Lives offers a new and important rethinking of the traditional "humanist" view of literature. That tradition's valuation of literature for its "moral import" is extended in a wider, more complex, open and exploratory understanding of those terms. Goldberg's argument ranges across literature since the Renaissance, focusing on examples from George Eliot's novels and Pope's poetry. An appendix assesses the relationship of his argument to recent accounts of literature offered by moral philosophers such as Iris Murdoch, Bernard Williams, Martha Nussbaum and Richard Rorty.
Read more- Controversial rejection of much recent literary theory, returning with fresh ideas to older critical models, invoking the moral importance of literature
- Appendix relates his argument to recent philosophy by big names like Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, Iris Murdoch and Martha Nussbaum
- Theory argued with reference to major frequently studied works by e.g. George Eliot
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- Date Published: June 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521112444
- length: 352 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. 'Perpetually moralists' ... 'in a large sense'
2. 'How to live' and 'How to live'
3. Agents and lives: making moral sense of people
4. 'Doing good to others': some reflections on Daniel Deronda
5. Moral thinking in The Mill on the Floss
6. Finding congenial matter: Pope and the art of life
7. Literary judgement: making moral sense of poems
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