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Tending the Heart of Virtue - How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R867
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Tending the Heart of Virtue - How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination (Hardcover, New): Vigen Guroian

Tending the Heart of Virtue - How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination (Hardcover, New)

Vigen Guroian

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A little jewel of a book on how great fairy tales and other children's stories, with their vivid myths and metaphors, can morally educate and refine young people. Theologian Guroian engages in a close and sensitive reading of about a dozen children's tales, including such well-known ones as The Little Mermaid and Pinocchio and such largely forgotten ones as The Princess and the Goblin by the 19th-century British writer George MacDonald. He notes that contemporary "values education," with its often dry presentation of moral principles, has at best limited appeal to children. In contrast, the great children's stories graphically and memorably present characters - human, animal, fantastical, and other - that embody the struggles and joys of being human. Their focus is on such enduring themes as deep friendship and love, suffering and solitude, fear and courage, empathy and the "leap of faith." Guroian writes crisply and perceptively about these and related matters, such as this observation about love, faith, and tolerance in The Princess and Goblin: "the hard troth [is] that we cannot make even those whom we love believe, and that if we truly love them, then we must permit them to come freely to that belief." His interpretations sometimes may prove overly christological for many non-Christian readers. For example, he claims that a "redrose willow tree" that the Little Mermaid plants "alludes to blood and tears and the passion of the cross," a symbolic link that seems far too theologically freighted for most children. Still, this is a book whose appeal goes far beyond the religiously minded; it will interest parents and teachers of all backgrounds who want to help their children to both grow imaginatively and achieve moral depth. (Kirkus Reviews)
How to raise children to be moral, responsible, and productive citizens is one of the most debated issues in society today. In this elegantly written and passionate book, Vigen Guroian argues that our most beloved fairy tales and classic and contemporary fantasy stories written for children have enormous power to awaken the moral imagination.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 1998
First published: May 1998
Authors: Vigen Guroian (Professor of Theology and Ethics)
Dimensions: 218 x 147 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 210
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511787-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
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LSN: 0-19-511787-5
Barcode: 9780195117875

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