Ethics, Literature, and Theory An

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Foreword

by Wayne C. Booth

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

xv

Part I: Ethical Criticism and Literary Theory

1

(128)

1 Premises on Art and Morality

3

(8)

John Gardner

2 The Moral Connections of Literary Texts

11

(12)

Abraham B. Yehoshua

3 Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be Simple

23

(14)

Wayne C. Booth

4 Ethical Criticism: What It Is and Why It Matters

37

(26)

Marshall Gregory

5 Against Ethical Criticism

63

(16)

Richard A. Posner

6 Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism?

79

(20)

Wayne C. Booth

7 The Absence of the Ethical: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory

99

(8)

Martha C. Nussbaum

8 Evaluative Discourse: A New Turn toward the Ethical

107

(8)

David Parker

9 The Moral and the Aesthetical: Literary Study and the Social Order

115

(14)

Stephen L. Tanner

Part II: Philosophy, Religion, and Literature

129

(82)

10 Reading for Life

131

(8)

Anthony Cunningham

11 The "Ancient Quarrel": Literature and Moral Philosophy

139

(14)

Martha C. Nissbaum

12 Stories and Morals

153

(12)

Nina Rosenstand

13 The Absence of Stories: Filling the Void in Ethics

165

(8)

Marianne Jennings

14 Literature and the Catholic Perspective

173

(8)

Many R. Reichardt

15 Literature and Protestantism

181

(8)

John J. Han

16 Something to Measure By: Quaker Values in Literature

189

(8)

Barbara A. Heavilirr

17 Literary Criticism and Religious Values

197

(14)

Bruce W. Young

Part III: Writers' Responsibilities

211

(52)

18 A Writer's Duty

213

(2)

John Updike

19 The Writer's Moral Sense

215

(4)

Flannery O'Connor

20 Imaginative Writing and the Jewish Experience

219

(6)

Bernard Malamud

21 The Problem of Evil in Fiction

225

(6)

Orson Scott Card

22 Poetry, Politics, and Morality

231

(8)

Jay Parini

23 Art and Ethics?

239

(2)

Joyce Carol Oates

24 What Violence in Literature Must Teach Us

241

(10)

Jack Harrell

25 Ethics and Literature

251

(12)

Charles Johnson

Part IV: Readers and Ethical Criticism

263

(76)

26 The Case against Huck Finn

265

(8)

John H. Wallace

27 Why We Still Need Huckleberry Finn

273

(6)

Dudley Barlow

28 Huckleberry Finn: An Amazing, Troubling Book

279

(10)

Toni Morrison

29 The Ethical Dimensions of Richard Wright's Native Son

289

(10)

Stephen K. George

30 Sethe's Choice: Beloved and the Ethics of Reading

299

(16)

James Phelan

31 Steinbeck, Johnson, and the Master/Slave Relationship

315

(14)

Richard E. Hart

32 Censorship and the Classroom

329

(10)

Georgia A. Newman

Notes

339

(30)

Glossary

369

(8)

Selected Bibliography

377

(2)

Permissions

379

(4)

Index

383

(14)

About the Contributors

397

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