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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I - ETHICAL CRITICISM AND LITERARY THEORY
Chapter 1 - Premises on Art and Morality
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 2 - The Moral Connections of Literary Texts
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 3 - Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be Simple
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III
IV
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 4 - Ethical Criticism: What It Is and Why It Matters
INTRODUCTION
THE INESCAPABILITY OF ETHICAL CRITICISM
ETHICAL CRITICISM AND POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVISM
EMOTIVISM, ENTERTAINMENT, AND ETHICAL DISCOURSE
ETHICAL CRITICISM AND DIRECT IMITATION OF LITERARY MODELS
AIMS OF ETHICAL CRITICISM
THE CONTENT OF ETHICAL CRITICISM
CONCLUSION
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 5 - Against Ethical Criticism
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 6 - Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism?
THE AUTHOR
THE READER
THE READER’S RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE AUTHOR
STORIES AS FRIENDSHIP OFFERINGS
SOME MEASURES OF LITERARY FRIENDSHIP
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 7 - The Absence of the Ethical: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 8 - Evaluative Discourse: A New Turn toward the Ethical
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 9 - The Moral and the Aesthetical: Literary Study and the Social Order
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Part II - PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND LITERATURE
Chapter 10 - Reading for Life
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 11 - The “Ancient Quarrel”: Literature and Moral Philosophy
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 12 - Stories and Morals
THE STORY AS A TOOL OF ETHICS
TELLING STORIES, LISTENING TO STORIES
TIMSHEL-THE POWER OF CHOICE
SOME MORAL THEORIES AND THEIR STORIES
THE FUTURE OF PERSONHOOD?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 13 - The Absence of Stories: Filling the Void in Ethics
INTRODUCTION
THE POWER OF STORIES
WHAT TO TEACH: THE USE OF STORIES AND LITERATURE
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 14 - Literature and the Catholic Perspective
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 15 - Literature and Protestantism
INTRODUCTION
THE PROTESTANT VIEW OF LITERATURE
DOMINANT THEMES AND TYPES OF PROTESTANT LITERATURE
CONCLUSION
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 16 - Something to Measure By: Quaker Values in Literature
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 17 - Literary Criticism and Religious Values
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Part III - WRITERS’ RESPONSIBILITIES
Chapter 18 - A Writer’s Duty
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 19 - The Writer’s Moral Sense
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 20 - Imaginative Writing and the Jewish Experience
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 21 - The Problem of Evil in Fiction
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 22 - Poetry, Politics, and Morality
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 23 - Art and Ethics?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 24 - What Violence in Literature Must Teach Us
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 25 - Ethics and Literature
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Part IV - READERS AND ETHICAL CRITICISM
Chapter 26 - The Case against Huck Finn
THE ISSUE
“NIGGER”
IN THE CLASSROOM
EQUAL PROTECTION AND OPPORTUNITY IN THE CLASSROOM
THE TEACHER
THE BLACK STUDENT
RACISM
RECOMMENDATIONS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 27 - Why We Still Need Huckleberry Finn
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 28 - Huckleberry Finn: An Amazing, Troubling Book
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 29 - The Ethical Dimensions of Richard Wright’s Native Son
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 30 - Sethe’s Choice: Beloved and the Ethics of Reading
MORRISON’S UNUSUAL GUIDANCE
ESTABLISHING ETHICAL POSITION
CONNECTIONS
CONSEQUENCES
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 31 - Steinbeck, Johnson, and the Master/Slave Relationship
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III
IV
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Chapter 32 - Censorship and the Classroom
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Permissions
Index
About the Contributors
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