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

Vigen Guroian illuminates the complex ways in which fairy tales and fantasies educate the moral imagination from earliest childhood. Examining a wide range of stories - from "Pinocchio" and "The Little Mermaid" to "Charlotte's Web", "The Velveteen Rabbit", "The Wind in the Willows", and the "Chronicles of Narnia" - he argues that these tales capture the meaning of morality through vivid depictions of the struggle between good and evil, in which characters must make difficult choices between right and wrong, or heroes and villains contest the very fate of imaginary worlds. Character and the virtues are depicted compellingly in these stories; the virtues glimmer as if in a looking glass, and wickedness and deception are unmasked of their pretensions to goodness and truth. We are made to face the unvarnished truth about ourselves, and what kind of people we want to be.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2002
First published:	February 2002
Authors:	Vigen Guroian (Professor of Theology and Ethics)
Dimensions:	210 x 139 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-515264-7
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
LSN:	0-19-515264-6
Barcode:	9780195152647

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