Virtuous Intentions: The Religious Dimension of Narrative (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781555403959)

Narrative does not simply tell a story; it discovers and creates story as well. Mark Ledbetter argues that an important dimension of narrative is its ability to reveal the virtuous life. He examines three narrative texts: James Agee's A Death in the Family, Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins, and Robert Penn Warren's A Place to Come To. His goal is to demonstrate how a study of narrative structure, especially the element of character, explores and reveals the life of virtue. He concludes with a discussion of how moral criticism has a place in post-modern literary reflection and how the two can work together to produce a critically sound literary interpretation.

Author: Mark Ledbetter
ISBN-10: 1555403956
ISBN-13: 9781555403959
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/02/1989
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.42h x 6.54w x 0.30d