Literature and moral feeling : a cognitive poetics of ethics, narrative, and empathy / Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogan, Patrick Colm, author.

Series:

Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series.

Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and morals.

Narration (Rhetoric)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Ethics in literature.

Empathy in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

An influential body of recent work on moral psychology has stressed the interconnections among ethics, narrative, and empathy. Yet as Patrick Colm Hogan argues, this work is so vague in its use of the term 'narrative' as to be almost substanceless, and this vagueness is in large part due to the neglect of literary study. Extending his previous work on universal story structures, Hogan argues that we can transform ill-defined intuitions about narrative and ethics into explicit and systematic accounts of the deep connections between moral attitudes and narratives. These connections are, in turn, inseparable from empathy, a concept that Hogan proceeds to clarify and defend against a number of widely read critiques. In the course of the book, Hogan develops and illustrates his arguments through analyses of global narratives, constructing illuminating ethical interpretations of literary works ranging from Shakespeare to Chinese drama and the Bhagavad Gita.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Hogan, Patrick Colm Literature and Moral Feeling

ISBN:

1-009-20715-6

1-009-20714-8

1-009-16950-5