A companion to the philosophy of literature / edited by Garry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hagberg, Garry, 1952-

Jost, Walter, 1951-

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Series:

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 44.

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Literature--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 552 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

9781405141703

1405141700

OCLC:

221152871

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