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Subject: [AE] IP LAF | 12 JUNE: Mitchell Green "Learning to be good (or
bad) through (or in) literature"
London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy)
Wednesday 12th June 2013
16.00 - 18.00 | Stewart House, STB9 (basement)
32 Russell Square London WC1B 5DN
Mitchell Green (Virginia)
Learning to be good (or bad) through (or in) literature
Much literature portrays characters negotiating moral
obstacles.B Some of these processes make these characters better
persons; others worse.B As readers we can learn from these
charactersb successes and failures.B Because such learning is made
possible by the fact that certain literary works show us how to be
good (or bad), literature can contribute to moral development or
degeneracy in readers.B This claim will be justified by a general
account of how it is possible to gain knowledge from a work of
fiction, and with the aid of case studies including Charlotte
Brontebs b Jane Eyreb , and Joyce Carol Oatesb b Zombieb .
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