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12"The Many Faces of Gossip in Emma"In Eva Dadlez (ed.), Jane Austen's Emma: Philosophical Perspectives. 2018.“News! Oh! Yes, I always like news.” Throughout Emma, Jane Austen’s eponymous heroine repeatedly betrays her intense love of gossip. Other characters (notably, Miss Bates and Mr. Knightley) also indulge and rejoice in this style of conversation, as does the novel’s own narrator. In this chapter, the authors propose to examine the multifaceted and ambiguous role played by gossip in Emma, in light of the diverse opinions expressed by a number of critics and philosophers about the ethical and psych…Read more
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172What's wrong with alienation?Philosophy and Literature 34 (1). 2010.Can art encourage social progress without invoking empathy? Bertolt Brecht thought so. He built convention violations into his plays in order to alienate audiences from their empathetic responses. He did this in order to encourage reasoned responses among his audience members. In so doing, Brecht ran the risk that spectators would imaginatively resist the play and focus exclusively on the convention violations. This kind of imaginative resistance does in fact undermine Brecht's purpose of achiev…Read more
University of Oklahoma
PhD, 2017
Areas of Specialization
Other Academic Areas |
Aesthetics and Culture |
Philosophy of Law |
Aesthetic Value |
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Law |
Aesthetic Value |