ENG 415 - Topics in Literature and Ethics - Reading Ethically, Reading Aesthetically

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Princeton University

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A study of the role that moral education should play in literary study, with examples drawn from American fiction, photography, and film. The possibility of an "ethics of reading" will be tested through various questions: Are there limits to what should be represented (sexual explicitness, violence)? Should offensive depictions of race, or class, or gender be challenged? What is lost through an "inauthentic" voice, or through paraphrase, or through an imposed cultural style?

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0.00 - 4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.princeton.edu

Phone Number:

(609) 258-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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