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This chapter first looks at the value and definition of art as it should and can be if ever it has moral value. The chapter asks the question why and how are artistic and literary activity morally valuable and excellent?
1 sty 2009 · Literature is an important means of worldmaking, of making sense of our lives and of reflecting, reinforcing but also constructing the norms and values we live by.
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ... the amount of money that something can be sold ... (Definition of sense and worth from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Our work in this project focuses mainly on contemporary literature or life stories, actualizing this postmodern conundrum. The overarching research question in this volume is: How is the sense of self negotiated in narratives that problematize identity formation and transformation? Our point of
Since the eighteenth century, critical debates about the value of individual writers and literary texts have been underpinned by a philosophical concern with the more fundamental problem of whether objective grounds may be established for aesthetic judgements.
17 mar 2017 · Jane is a woman coming into her own, choosing her own path and finding her own destiny, without stipulation. Brontë gives Jane all that she needs to succeed: a strong sense of self, intelligence, determination and, finally, wealth.
It is further argued that the sense of a work of literature, as well as its reference, may be of cognitive value, and some examples of works (or parts of works) whose cognitive value resides in their reference (respectively, sense) are given.
