Morality and the Literary Imagination - Volume 36, Religion and Public Life

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

Sommario

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

Info autore

Gabriel R. Ricci

Riassunto

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ricci, Gabriel R Ricci, Gabriel R. Ricci, Ricci Gabriel R.
• Con la collaborazione di: Gabriel R Ricci (Editore), Gabriel R. Ricci (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138528390
• ISBN: 978-1-138-52839-0
• Pagine: 200
• Serie: Religion and Public Life
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy