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Shaped by stories : the ethical power of narratives
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- Creator
- Marshall Gregory
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 223 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0268029741, 9780268080600, 0268080607, 9780268029746
- OCLC
- ocn694144503, ocn368047331
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reading for life -- What is ethical agency, why should you care, and what do stories have to do with your ethical agency? -- For good or ill: stories as ethical education -- Stories and the ethics of experience -- Judgment that bites, assent that risks -- Story as companionship -- Ethics of narrative in a practical vein: ethical invitations in Katherine Anne Porter's "The Grave" -- Ethics of narrative in a practical vein once more: invitations to misogyny in James Thurber's "The Catbird Seat" -- Ethical engagements over time: reading and rereading David Copperfield and Wuthering Heights -- Postscript: Toward an ethical theory