Books and becoming good: Demonstrating Aristotle's theory of moral development in the act of reading

Journal of Moral Education

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-183

  Cain, Amanda ^a  

^a Francis Harvey Green Library   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144489876     PISSN: 03057240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03057240500127095     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. Aristotle (1999) Nicomachean ethics (T. Irwin, Trans.) (2nd edn.) (Indiana, Hackett Publishing).
2. Aristotle (1970) Poetics (G. Else, Trans.) (Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan).
3. Birkerts, S. (1994) The Gutenberg elegies: the fate of reading in an electronic age (Boston, MA, Faber and Faber).
4. Black, S. (2003) The magic of Harry Potter: symbols and heroes of fantasy, Children's Literature in Education, 34(3), 237-247.
5. Booth, W. (1988) The company we keep: an ethics of fiction (Berkeley, CA, University of California Press).
6. Galligan, A. (2004) Truth is stranger than magic: the marketing of Harry Potter, Australian Screen Education, 35, 36-41.
7. Guroian, V. (1998) Tending the heart of virtue: how classic stories awaken a child's moral imagination (New York, Oxford University Press).
8. Hough, G. (1963) The dream and the task: literature and morals in the culture of today (New York, W.W. Norton).
9. Kerfoot, J. B. (1916) How to read (Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin).
10. Kosman, L. A. (1980) Being properly affected: virtues and feelings in Aristotle's ethics, in: A. O. Rorty (Ed.) Essays on Aristotle's Ethics (Berkeley, CA, University of California Press), 103-116.
11. Natov, R. (2002) Harry Potter and the extraordinariness of the ordinary, in: L. A. Whited (Ed.) The ivory tower and Harry Potter: perspectives on a literary phenomenon (Columbia, MO, University of Missouri Press), 125-139.
12. Nussbaum, M. (1986) The fragility of goodness: luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press).
13. Nussbaum, M. (1990) Love's knowledge: essays on philosophy and literature (Oxford, Oxford University Press).
14. Pharr, M. (2002) In media res: Harry Potter as hero-in-progress, in: L. A. Whited (Ed.) The ivory tower and Harry Potter: perspectives on a literary phenomenon (Columbia, MO, University of Missouri Press), 53-66.