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A companion to the philosophy of literature

This monumental collection of new and recent essays from an international team of eminent scholars represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to both literary and philosophical studies of literature.: Helpfully groups essays into the field's main sub-categories, among them 'Relations Between Philosophy and Literature', 'Emotional Engagement and the Experience of Reading', 'Literature and the Moral Life', and 'Literary Language' Offers a combination of analytical precision and literary richness; Represents an unparalleled work of reference for students and specialists alike, id.

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Wiley-Blackwell
Language
English
Pages
552

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Table of Contents

Introduction / Garry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost
Relations between philosophy and literature
Philosophy as literature and more than literature / Richard Shusterman
Philosophy and literature : friends of the earth? / Roger A. Shiner
Philosophy and literature, and rhetoric : adventures in polytopia / Walter Jost
Philosophy and/as/of literature / Arthur C. Danto
Emotional engagement and the experience of reading
Emotion and the understanding of narrative / Jenefer Robinson
Feeling fictions / Roger Scruton
The experience of reading / Peter Kivy
Self-defining reading : literature and the constitution of personhood / Garry L. Hagberg
Philosophy, tragedy, and literary form
Tragedy and philosophy / Anthony J. Cascardi
Iago's Elenchus : Shakespeare, Othello, and the Platonic inheritance / M.W. Rowe
Catharsis / Jonathan Lear
Passion, counter-passion, catharsis : Flaubert (and Beckett) on feeling nothing / Joshua Landy
Literature and the moral life
Perceptive equilibrium : literary theory and ethical theory / Martha C. Nussbaum
Henry James, moral philosophers, moralism / Cora Diamond
Literature and the idea of morality / Eileen John
Styles of self-absorption / Daniel Brudney
Narrative and the question of literary truth
Narrative, imitation, and point of view / Gregory Currie
How and what we can learn from fiction / Mitchell Green
Literature and truth / Peter Lamarque
Truth in poetry : particulars and universals / Richard Eldridge
Intention and biography in criticism
Authorial intention and the varieties of intentionalism / Paisley Livingston
Art as techne, or, the intentional fallacy and the unfinished project of formalism / Henry Staten
Biography in literary criticism / Stein Haugom Olsen
Getting inside Heisenberg's head / Ray Monk
On literary language
Wittgenstein and literary language / Jon Cook and Rupert Read
Exemplification and expression / Charles Altieri
At play in the fields of metaphor / Ted Cohen
Macbeth appalled / Stanley Cavell.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Published in
Chichester, U.K, Malden, MA
Series
Blackwell companions to philosophy -- 44, Blackwell companions to philosophy -- 44.

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Dewey Decimal Class
801
Library of Congress
PN501 .C626 2010eb, PN501.C626 2010

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Format
[electronic resource] /
Pagination
1 online resource (xiv, 552 p.)
Number of pages
552

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27025259M
Internet Archive
companiontophilo00hagb
ISBN 10
1444315609
ISBN 13
9781444315608
OCLC/WorldCat
554857909

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