An edition of Tending the heart of virtue (1998)

Tending the Heart of Virtue

How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination

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Tending the Heart of Virtue
Vigen Guroian, Vigen Guroian
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An edition of Tending the heart of virtue (1998)

Tending the Heart of Virtue

How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination

  • 12 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

"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 Narnia Chronicles - 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." "Throughout, Guroian highlights the classical moral virtues such as courage, goodness, and honesty, especially as they are understood in traditional Christianity."--BOOK JACKET.

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Cover of: Tending the Heart of Virtue
Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination
2023, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Tending the Heart of Virtue
Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination
2023, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Tending the Heart of Virtue
Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination
January 14, 2002, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: Tending the Heart of Virtue
Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination
2002, Ebsco Publishing
in English
Cover of: Tending the Heart of Virtue
Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination
2002, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Tending the heart of virtue
Tending the heart of virtue: how classic stories awaken a child's moral imagination
1998, Oxford University Press
in English

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PN1009.A1G87 2002

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OL39981514M
ISBN 13
9780198027874

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The American writer Flannery O'Connor spoke a simple but profound truth when she said that "a story is a way to say that can't be said any other way....
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