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A theory of literary explication : specifying a relativistic foundation in epistemic probability, cognitive science, and second-order logic / by Kenneth B. Newell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newell, Kenneth B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reading, Psychology of.
- Reading.
- Cognitive science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.
- Summary:
- This book presents current multidisciplinary research and theory from 17 different fields (most of them never before applied to literary explication) in order to provide (1) justification for the practice of a relative-probability type of explication as distinguished from interpretation, (2) a relativistic foundation for the preference of some explication(s) of a literary work over others, and thereby (3) a middle way between the postmodern pluralist view that a work has only an unlimited num...
- Contents:
- pt. 1. A defense of explication
- pt. 2. Consensus of SOROEP judgments
- pt. 3. SOROEP and foundations.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-24085-8
- 1-4438-3230-8
- 9786613240859
- OCLC:
- 748534218
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