Notes on Contributors vii Foreword xi Garry L. Hagberg Part I: Historical Foundations 1 1 Is Ethical Criticism a Problem? A Historical Perspective 3 Paul Guyer Part II: Conceptions of Ethical Content 33 2 Narrative and the Ethical Life 35 Noel Carroll 3 A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Improvement through Fiction 63 Joshua Landy 4 Empathy, Expression, and What Artworks Have to Teach 95 Mitchell Green Part III: Literature and Moral Responsibility 123 5 "Solid Objects," Solid Objections: On Virginia Woolf and Philosophy 125 Paisley Livingston 6 Disgrace: Bernard Williams and J. M. Coetzee 144 Catherine Wilson 7 Facing Death Together: Camus's The Plague 163 Robert C. Solomon Part IV: Visual Art, Artifacts, and the Ethical Response 185 8 Staying in Touch 187 Carolyn Korsmeyer 9 Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and the Ethical Dimensions of Photography 211 David Davies 10 Ethical Judgments in Museums 229 Ivan Gaskell Part V: Music and Moral Relations 243 11 Cosi's Canon Quartet 245 Stephen Davies 12 Jazz Improvisation and Ethical Interaction: A Sketch of the Connections 259 Garry L. Hagberg Index 286
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