Moderate moralism: the aesthetic virtue and defect in Bob Dylan’s ‘Masters of War’ and ‘Neighbourhood Bully’

No one can argue against the fact that the first thing that will keep the reader wanting to complete reading or to reread a literary text is the aesthetic experience that the work affords. This can be noticed when the perceiver faces any successful work of art. There is a sense of amusement and ex...

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Main Author:	Alotaibi, Sumaya Monaif
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11292/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11292/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11292/1/16824-54516-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-112922018-01-21T15:01:27Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11292/ Moderate moralism: the aesthetic virtue and defect in Bob Dylan’s ‘Masters of War’ and ‘Neighbourhood Bully’ Alotaibi, Sumaya Monaif No one can argue against the fact that the first thing that will keep the reader wanting to complete reading or to reread a literary text is the aesthetic experience that the work affords. This can be noticed when the perceiver faces any successful work of art. There is a sense of amusement and excitement (an aesthetic experience). This experience is emergent, formed as a result of the artistic value of the work. One of the elements comprising the artistic value is the moral dimension. Poems, and indeed any art work may hold moral value which will affect the experience of receiving them. The concept of moral value and its relation to aesthetic value in some art forms has been discussed by many scholars. This paper discusses the merit of Noel Carrol’s theory, moderate moralism. It then displays the moral virtues and defects of lyrics from two Bob Dylan’s songs, Masters of War and Neighbourhood Bully on the real readers’ aesthetic experience by using insights from moderate moralism, to establish the relationships between moral defects and virtues and their aesthetic value. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11292/1/16824-54516-1-PB.pdf Alotaibi, Sumaya Monaif (2017) Moderate moralism: the aesthetic virtue and defect in Bob Dylan’s ‘Masters of War’ and ‘Neighbourhood Bully’. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 23 (2). pp. 87-95. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/972
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description	No one can argue against the fact that the first thing that will keep the reader wanting to complete reading or to reread a literary text is the aesthetic experience that the work affords. This can be noticed when the perceiver faces any successful work of art. There is a sense of amusement and excitement (an aesthetic experience). This experience is emergent, formed as a result of the artistic value of the work. One of the elements comprising the artistic value is the moral dimension. Poems, and indeed any art work may hold moral value which will affect the experience of receiving them. The concept of moral value and its relation to aesthetic value in some art forms has been discussed by many scholars. This paper discusses the merit of Noel Carrol’s theory, moderate moralism. It then displays the moral virtues and defects of lyrics from two Bob Dylan’s songs, Masters of War and Neighbourhood Bully on the real readers’ aesthetic experience by using insights from moderate moralism, to establish the relationships between moral defects and virtues and their aesthetic value.
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author_facet	Alotaibi, Sumaya Monaif
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title	Moderate moralism: the aesthetic virtue and defect in Bob Dylan’s ‘Masters of War’ and ‘Neighbourhood Bully’
title_short	Moderate moralism: the aesthetic virtue and defect in Bob Dylan’s ‘Masters of War’ and ‘Neighbourhood Bully’
title_full	Moderate moralism: the aesthetic virtue and defect in Bob Dylan’s ‘Masters of War’ and ‘Neighbourhood Bully’
title_fullStr	Moderate moralism: the aesthetic virtue and defect in Bob Dylan’s ‘Masters of War’ and ‘Neighbourhood Bully’
title_full_unstemmed	Moderate moralism: the aesthetic virtue and defect in Bob Dylan’s ‘Masters of War’ and ‘Neighbourhood Bully’
title_sort	moderate moralism: the aesthetic virtue and defect in bob dylan’s ‘masters of war’ and ‘neighbourhood bully’
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2017
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Moderate moralism: the aesthetic virtue and defect in Bob Dylan’s ‘Masters of War’ and ‘Neighbourhood Bully’

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