TY - JOUR ID - 101424 TI - Streaks of Pragmatic Moral Imagination in Post-postmodern Fiction: A Study of Deweyan Philosophy in Dave Eggers’ Heroes of the Frontiers JO - Critical Language and Literary studies JA - CLLS LA - en SN - 20087330 AU - Esmaeili, Fatemeh AU - Montakhabi Bakhtvar, Narges AD - PhD Student of English Language and Literature, Department of English Language and Literature,, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Central Tehran Branch,, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran AD - Department of English Language and Literature,, Faculty of Foreign Languages,, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 18 IS - 27 SP - 185 EP - 212 KW - Ethical Turn KW - Dave Eggers KW - Pragmatism KW - Moral Imagination KW - experience KW - Environment KW - Meliorism DO - 10.52547/clls.18.27.185 N2 - Although a number of theorists, critics, and philosophers have acknowledged the recent ethical turn in the novel and literary criticism since the last two decades, the quiddity of illustrated morality remains vague and needs further research. Thus, the present article endeavors to evaluate the new moral matrix in Heroes of the Frontier (2016) by Dave Eggers, indicating the end of postmodern era. Indeed, this novel demonstrates a world in which people face plights of postmodernism caused by egoism and consumerism. However, in the rest of the novel, a wondrous ethical turn occurs which has never been detected before and needs to be examined in detail. Since this is a situational, experimental, and posteriori morality, the researchers aim to study the aforementioned novel under the light of John Dewey’s pragmatic ethics based on “moral inquiry”, “experience”, “imagination”, “situation”, and “meliorism”. This research also demonstrates that moral imagination could solve the individual and social problems in postmodern society, which can lead to moral evolution, growth, self-correction, reconstruction and advent of hope. UR - https://clls.sbu.ac.ir/article_101424.html L1 - https://clls.sbu.ac.ir/article_101424_9d40d437917161f6f642b7b6556b4b87.pdf ER -