{"title":"<i>LITTLE DORRIT</i> AND THE STRUCTURE OF BELIEF","authors":"Winter Jade Werner","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frad026","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article probes the famous metaphor from Little Dorrit when Amy Dorrit is called the ‘vanishing point’ in Arthur’s ‘poor story’. Considering in conjunction with theories of perspectival drawing, belief, and ‘representative thinking’, it suggests the metaphor of the vanishing point for Charles Dickens yields a broader ethical argument regarding how one might engage with the beliefs of others. Rather than simply endorsing or rejecting others’ beliefs based on their grounding in empirical reality, Dickens suggests there is distinct moral value in maintaining and cultivating other’s beliefs—even the most ungrounded beliefs—rather than reflexively exploding them.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Literature and Theology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad026","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This article probes the famous metaphor from Little Dorrit when Amy Dorrit is called the ‘vanishing point’ in Arthur’s ‘poor story’. Considering in conjunction with theories of perspectival drawing, belief, and ‘representative thinking’, it suggests the metaphor of the vanishing point for Charles Dickens yields a broader ethical argument regarding how one might engage with the beliefs of others. Rather than simply endorsing or rejecting others’ beliefs based on their grounding in empirical reality, Dickens suggests there is distinct moral value in maintaining and cultivating other’s beliefs—even the most ungrounded beliefs—rather than reflexively exploding them.
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Literature and Theology, a quarterly peer-review journal, provides a critical non-confessional forum for both textual analysis and theoretical speculation, encouraging explorations of how religion is embedded in culture. Contributions should address questions pertinent to both literary study and theology broadly understood, and be consistent with the Journal"s overall aim: to engage with and reshape traditional discourses within the studies of literature and religion, and their cognate fields - biblical criticism, literary criticism, philosophy, politics, culture studies, gender studies, artistic theory/practice, and contemporary critical theory/practice.
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