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Where is Finch's Landing? Rereading To Kill A Mockingbird As Moral Pedagogy
Abstract:What does the impossible location of Finch's Landing tell us about the moral pedagogy of To Kill a Mockingbird? Rejecting the claim that the novel calls for us to place ourselves in another's shoes, I argue that it actually exposes the weakness of this mechanism as a resource for moral action. Instead, the novel seeks to demonstrate that such action requires a kind of engaged critical reflection, one called for by a text that makes far more significant demands on the reader than many have recognized. The location of Finch's Landing is the key to understanding the whole text. Seriously.
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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.