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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hagberg, Garry, 1952-

Jost, Walter, 1951-

Series:

Blackwell companions to philosophy.

Blackwell companions to philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Literature--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (568 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 richnessRepresents an unparalleled work of reference for students and specialist

Contents:

A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Relations between Philosophy and Literature; 1 Philosophy as Literature and More than Literature; 2 Philosophy and Literature: Friends of the Earth?; 3 Philosophy and Literature - and Rhetoric: Adventures in Polytopia; 4 Philosophy and/as/of Literature; Part II Emotional Engagement and the Experience of Reading; 5 Emotion and the Understanding of Narrative; 6 Feeling Fictions; 7 The Experience of Reading; 8 Self-Defining Reading: Literature and the Constitution of Personhood

Part III Philosophy, Tragedy, and Literary Form9 Tragedy and Philosophy; 10 Iago's Elenchus: Shakespeare, Othello, and the Platonic Inheritance; 11 Catharsis; 12 Passion, Counter-Passion, Catharsis: Flaubert (and Beckett) on Feeling Nothing; Part IV Literature and the Moral Life; 13 Perceptive Equilibrium: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory; 14 Henry James, Moral Philosophers, Moralism; 15 Literature and the Idea of Morality; 16 Styles of Self-Absorption; Part V Narrative and the Question of Literary Truth; 18 How and What We Can Learn from Fiction; 19 Literature and Truth

20 Truth in Poetry: Particulars and UniversalsPart VI Intention and Biography in Criticism; 21 Authorial Intention and the Varieties of Intentionalism; 22 Art as Techne, or, The Intentional Fallacy and the Unfinished Project of Formalism; 23 Biography in Literary Criticism; 24 Getting Inside Heisenberg's Head; Part VII On Literary Language; 25 Wittgenstein and Literary Language; 26 Exemplification and Expression; 27 At Play in the Fields of Metaphor; 28 Macbeth Appalled; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612455100

9781405184861

1405184868

9781782686323

1782686320

9781282455108

1282455109

9781405197182

1405197188

9781444315592

1444315595

9781444315608

1444315609

OCLC:

630336188