Learning to be good (or bad) through (or in) literature
Mitchell S. Green (University of Connecticut)

November 13, 2013, 11:00am - 1:00pm
London Aesthetics Forum, Institute of Philosophy

Stewart House, Room STB8 (basement)
32 Russell Square London
London WC1B 5DN
United Kingdom

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Much literature portrays characters negotiating moral obstacles.  Some of these processes make these characters better persons; others worse.  As readers we can learn from these characters’ successes and failures.  Because such learning is made possible by the fact that certain literary works show us how to be good (or bad), literature can contribute to moral development or degeneracy in readers.  This claim will be justified by a general account of how it is possible to gain knowledge from a work of fiction, and with the aid of case studies including Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre”, and Joyce Carol Oates’ “Zombie”.


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The London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) is generously supported by the British Society of Aesthetics

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