1st Edition
Morality and the Literary Imagination Volume 36, Religion and Public Life
By Gabriel R. Ricci
Copyright 2009
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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In a letter to Boccaccio, Petrarch extolled the virtue of poetry and letters for promoting an understanding of both human nature and morals. The letter was designed to console him after hearing a prediction that he was soon to die and that he ought to renounce poetry. The prophecy came from an elder renowned for his piety, but Petrarch admonished that too often dishonesty and fraud are couched in... Read more
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
Biography
Gabriel R. Ricci
