An ancient quarrel continued : the troubled marriage of philosophy and literature / Louis Mackey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mackey, Louis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 283 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : University Press of America, [2002]

Contents:

1. The Philosophy of Genre and the Genre of Philosophy 3

2. Kant, Vaihinger, and the Fiction of Philosophy 19

3. Poetry, History, Truth, and Redemption 29

4. Anatomical Curiosities: Northrop Frye's Theory of Criticism 49

5. The Preface of the Question: An Entertainment 75

6. Theory and Practice in the Rhetoric of I. A. Richards 85

7. Sounding Brass. Tinkling Symbols 105

8. Eros into Logos: The Rhetoric of Courtly Love 117

9. Allegories of Reading in Robert Coover's Exemplary Fictions 133

10. Pieces of Pynchon

a. Gravity's Rainbow and the Economy of Preterition 153

b. Paranoia, Pynchon, and Preterition 167

c. Thomas Pynchon and the American Dream 182

11. The Name of the Book 195

12. Seeing Things as They Aren't: The Case of Science Fiction 207

13. A Nicer Knowledge of Belief 219

14. Philosophy: To Be Continued 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-272) and index.

ISBN:

0761822674

OCLC:

49259863