In his religious poems he preached the need for man actively to meet the claims of his Creator by, for instance, going on pilgrimage or on Crusade; in his moral-didactic poems he praises such human virtues as faithfulness, sincerity, charity, and self-discipline virtues that were not eself-discipline virtueshis own life.
Autotelism, the belief that a work of art, especially a work of literature, is an end in itself or provides its own justification and does not exist to serve a moral or didactic purpose.
Of a more secular nature and on the verge of true literature are moral and didactic writings, particularly during the early Middle Kingdom (began 1938 bce), when a profound social and spiritual crisis seems to have gripped Egypt.
And because it's a political book it has a tremendous moral and didactic message, and yet it so transcends the teaching aspect of it that it seems to me the most remarkable model for what a novel should be, when you want to say something with a 'message'message
He is also generally credited as one of the first to write both in the vernacular, and without an obligation to the moral or didactic in his short stories, writing stories simply to entertain rather than to enlighten.
Marulić's didactic moral works were written in Latin and translated into many European languages.
Not a breath of air or natural light passes across the set: we're in the dead zone of schematic abstraction and didactic moral fable.
A strong didactic, moral element underlies much of Crane's work, and for several years he contributed weekly cartoons to the socialist periodicals Justice and The Commonweal.
Like Seinfeld and its famous "no hugging, no lessons" policy, the episodes don't have a didactic moral, but the characters are all searching for something meaningful in this sometimes crummy life.
We have quests, but there is no rule of three by which the protagonist can learn to do better, and no didactic moral purpose showing how the supernatural favours the merciful, the clever or the poor.
