"Now, how were his sentiments to be read?": Imagination and Discernment in Austen's Persuasion

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.1353/phl.2022.0020

Lauren Kopajtic

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Abstract

Abstract:The claim is often made that the novel can be an important resource in developing the moral capacities of readers, but how might this work? What would such an education look like for the reader of a novel? This paper explores these questions by working through a specific novel, Jane Austen's Persuasion, and examining how it accomplishes these goals. I argue that Persuasion dramatizes the workings of moral imagination, and I show how this dramatization can affect the reader by refining her imagination and making her more discerning of moral qualities.

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“那么，他的感情该如何解读呢?”奥斯丁《劝导》中的想象力与洞察力

摘要:人们常常认为小说可以成为培养读者道德能力的重要资源，但这是如何起作用的呢?对于小说的读者来说，这样的教育是什么样子的呢?本文通过简·奥斯汀的《劝导》这部小说来探讨这些问题，并研究它是如何实现这些目标的。我认为《劝导》戏剧化了道德想象的运作，我展示了这种戏剧化是如何通过精炼读者的想象力，使她对道德品质更有鉴别力来影响读者的。

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期刊介绍： For more than a quarter century, Philosophy and Literature has explored the dialogue between literary and philosophical studies. The journal offers a constant source of fresh, stimulating ideas in the aesthetics of literature, theory of criticism, philosophical interpretation of literature, and literary treatment of philosophy. Philosophy and Literature challenges the cant and pretensions of academic priesthoods by publishing an assortment of lively, wide-ranging essays, notes, and reviews that are written in clear, jargon-free prose. In his regular column, editor Denis Dutton targets the fashions and inanities of contemporary intellectual life.