Literature, Interpretation and Ethics argues for the centrality of hermeneutics in the context of ongoing debates about the value and values of literature, and

This volume brings together the most recent theories of ethics and reading and applies them to a wide variety of literary texts, offering an exemplary display o

Interweaving past and present texts, The Challenge of Coleridge engages the British Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge in a &"conver

These new essays explore central aspects of the ethical content of literature: character, its formation, and its role in moral discernment; poetic vision in the

While rejecting a conception of literature as moral philosophy, or a device for imparting particular morals to the reader through exemplary characters and plots