Ethical Sense and Literary Significance: Deep Sociality and the Cultural Agency of Imaginative Discourse

Links the cultural agency of imaginative discourse to its capacity to address, challenge, and evoke a deep sociality characteristic of humans; Brings together two prominent currents informing contemporary literary theory-affective and neurocognitive-evolutionary literary studies and work calling for renewed attentiveness to ethical and aesthetic qualities in literary works; Develops and illustrates his arguments through analyses of a wide range of literary works