Morals And Stories

Morals and Stories holds that literature is a form of knowledge about moral character and how it fits into the social world, and that stories are vital to building and transforming character. Siebers examines a variety of authors from Plato, Homer, and Aesop to Austen and Tolstoy; philosophers such as Kant, Arendt, and Williams; and literary

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Argues that literature is a form of knowledge about moral character, and that neither morals nor stories can be understood without the other. Considers philosophic and critical studies, and literature from Homer to African novelist Chinua Achebe. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)