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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828542603321

Autore

Gregory Marshall W. <1940->

Titolo

Shaped by stories : the ethical power of narratives / / Marshall Gregory

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009

ISBN

0-268-08060-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/353

Soggetti

English literature - Study and teaching

American literature - Study and teaching

Ethics in literature

Literature and morals

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Shaped by Stories -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Reading for Life -- 2. What Is Ethical Agency, Why Should You Care, and What Do Stories Have to Do with Your Ethical Agency? -- 3. For Good or Ill -- 4. Stories and the Ethics of Experience -- 5. Judgment that Bites, Assent that Risks -- 6. Story as Companionship -- 7. Ethics of Narrative in a Practical Vein: Ethical Invitations in Katherine Anne Porter's "The Grave" -- 8. Ethics of Narrative in a Practical Vein Once More: Invitations to Misogyny in James Thurber's "The Catbird Seat" -- 9. Ethical Engagements Over Time: Reading and Rereading David Copperfield and Wuthering Heights -- 10. Postscript -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.