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Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature

Author : Andrea Selleri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319331477
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature written by Andrea Selleri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the interaction between literary studies and the philosophy of literature. It features essays from internationally renowned and emerging philosophers and literary scholars, challenging readers to join them in taking seriously the notion of interdisciplinary study and forging forward in new and exciting directions of thought. It identifies that literary studies and the philosophy of literature address similar issues: What is literature? What is its value? Why do I care about characters? What is the role of the author in understanding a literary work? What is fiction as opposed to non-fiction? Yet, genuine, interdisciplinary interaction remains scarce. This collection seeks to overcome current obstacles and seek out new paths for exploration.

Philosophy and Literature

Author : Ole Martin Skilleås
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780585443355
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Literature written by Ole Martin Skilleås and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What does philosophy think about literature? And what does literary theory tell us about philosophy? Find out how philosophy addresses the questions of the nature and value of literature, and how literary analysis shows that philosophy's attempts to persuade its reader seem to conflict with its self-definition as the discourse of pure and untainted reason. Discover why Plato divided philosophy and literature, banishing literature from his ideal state, and how Aristotle answered Plato's criticisms of literature. And explore how philosophy's drive to define phenomena takes us into different ways of defining literature."--

A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature

Author : Garry L. Hagberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118963873
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature by : Garry L. Hagberg

Download or read book A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature written by Garry L. Hagberg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, ideal for course use

The Philosophy of Literary Form

Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : New York : Vintage Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Literary Form written by Kenneth Burke and published by New York : Vintage Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature

Author : Barry Stocker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137547944
Total Pages : 779 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature written by Barry Stocker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive Handbook presents the major perspectives within philosophy and literary studies on the relations, overlaps and tensions between philosophy and literature. Drawing on recent work in philosophy and literature, literary theory, philosophical aesthetics, literature as philosophy and philosophy as literature, its twenty-nine chapters plus substantial Introduction and Afterword examine the ways in which philosophy and literature depend on each other and interact, while also contrasting with each other in that they necessarily exclude or incorporate each other. This book establishes an enduring framework for structuring the broad themes defining the relations between philosophy and literature and organising the main topics in the field. Key Features • Structured in five parts addressing philosophy as literature, philosophy of literature, philosophical aesthetics, literary criticism and theory, and main areas of work within philosophy and literature • An Introduction setting out the main concerns of the field through discussion of the major themes along with the individual topics • An Afterword looking at the interactions between philosophy and literature through itself enacting philosophical and literary writing while examining the question of how they can be brought together The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature is an essential resource for scholars, researchers and advanced students in philosophy of literature, philosophy as literature, literary theory, literature as philosophy, and the philosophical aesthetics of literature. It is an ideal volume for researchers, advanced students and scholars in philosophy, literary studies, philosophy and literature, cultural studies, classical studies and other related fields.

Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida

Author : Mark Edmundson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521485326
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida written by Mark Edmundson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book argues that the institutionalisation of literary theory, particularly within American and British academic circles, has led to a sterility of thought which ignores the special character of literary art. Mark Edmundson traces the origins of this tendency to the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry, in which Plato took the side of philosophy; and he shows how the work of modern theorists - Foucault, Derrida, de Man and Bloom - exhibits similar drives to subsume poetic art into some 'higher' kind of thought. Challenging and controversial, this book should be read by all teachers of literature and of theory, and by anyone concerned about the future of institutionalised literary studies.

The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory

Author : Peter V. Zima
Publisher : Continuum
ISBN 13 : 9780826478931
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (789 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory written by Peter V. Zima and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2005-07-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deconstruction and Critical Theory - Surveys the main schools and theorists of Deconstruction - Establishes their philosophical roots - Traces their intellectual development - Analyses their contribution to the understanding of literature and ideology - Compares their critical value - Explores the critical reaction to Deconstruction and its limitations This is the ideal text for students who wish to understand how and why Deconstruction has become the dominant tool of the humanities.

Karl Popper and Literary Theory

Author : Thomas Trzyna
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004335838
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Karl Popper and Literary Theory written by Thomas Trzyna and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Popper’s philosophy of science provides a foundation for a theory of literary interpretation that avoids the pitfalls of contemporary theories. This study outlines the approach and applies it to challenging works from the Gospel of Mark to Patrick Modiano.

Turning Toward Philosophy

Author : Jill Gordon
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271039770
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Turning Toward Philosophy written by Jill Gordon and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledging the powerful impact that Plato's dialogues have had on readers, Jill Gordon shows how the literary techniques Plato used function philosophically to engage readers in doing philosophy and attracting them toward the philosophical life. The picture of philosophical activity emerging from the dialogues, as thus interpreted, is a complex process involving vision, insight, and emotion basic to the human condition rather than a resort to pure reason as an escape from it. Since the literary features of Plato's writing are what draw the reader into philosophy, the book becomes an argument for the union of philosophy and literature--and against their disciplinary bifurcation--in the dialogues. Gordon construes the relationship of Plato's text to its audience as an analogue of Socrates' relationship with his interlocutors in the dialogues, seeing both as fundamentally dialectic. On this insight she builds her detailed analysis of specific literary devices in chapters on dramatic form, character development, irony, and image-making (which includes myth, metaphor, and analogy). In this way Gordon views Plato as not at all the enemy of the poets and image-makers that previous interpreters have depicted. Rather, Gordon concludes that Plato understands the power of words and images quite well. Since they, and not logico-deductive argumentation, are the appropriate means for engaging human beings, he uses them to great effect and with a sensitive understanding of human psychology, wary of their possible corrupting influences but ultimately willing to harness their power for philosophical ends.

The Subject and the Text

Author : Manfred Frank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521561211
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book The Subject and the Text written by Manfred Frank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the German philosopher Manfred Frank has profoundly affected the direction of the contemporary debate in many areas of philosophy and literary theory. This present collection, first published in 1998, brings together some of his most important essays, on subjects as diverse as Schleiermacher's hermeneutics, the status of the literary text, and the response to the work of Derrida and Lacan. Frank shows how the discussions of subjectivity in recent literary theory fail to take account of important developments in German Idealist and Romantic philosophy. The prominence accorded language in literary theory and analytic philosophy, he claims, ignores key arguments inherited from Romantic hermeneutics, those which demonstrate that interpretation is an individual activity never finally governed by rules. Andrew Bowie's introduction situates Frank's work in the context of contemporary debates in philosophy and literary theory.

New Directions in Philosophy and Literature

Author : David Rudrum
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781474449144
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Philosophy and Literature written by David Rudrum and published by EUP. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This forward-thinking reference volume draws on new developments in philosophy including speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, the new materialisms, posthumanism, analytic philosophy of language and metaphysics, and ecophilosophy alongside close readings of a range of texts from the literary canon.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature

Author : Richard Eldridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199724105
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature written by Richard Eldridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-27 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains twenty-three newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life. Various forms of attention are considered under the headings of Genres (from Ancient Epic to the Novel and Contemporary Experimental Writing), Periods (from Realism and Romanticism to Postcolonialism), Devices and Powers (Imagination, Plot, Character, Style, and Emotion), and Contexts and Uses (in relation to inquiry, morality, and politics). In each case, the effort is to track and evaluate how specific modes and works of imaginative literature answer to important needs of human subjects for orientation, the articulation of interest in life, and the working through of emotion, within situations that are both sociohistorical and human. Hence these essays show how and why literature matters in manifold ways in and for human cultural life, and they show how philosophers and imaginative literary writers have continually both engaged with and criticized each other.

Future Crossings

Author : Krzysztof Ziarek
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810117914
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Future Crossings written by Krzysztof Ziarek and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays exploring the future of literary studies by focusing on the relationship between literary theory, philosophy, and cultural studies. The essays aim to break the boundaries separating philosophy and literature.

Philosophy, Literature and Understanding

Author : Jukka Mikkonen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350163988
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy, Literature and Understanding written by Jukka Mikkonen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging existing methodological conceptions of the analytic approach to aesthetics, Jukka Mikkonen brings together philosophy, literary studies and cognitive psychology to offer a new theory on the cognitive value of reading fiction. Philosophy, Literature and Understanding defends the epistemic significance of narratives, arguing that it should be explained in terms of understanding rather than knowledge. Mikkonen formulates understanding as a cognitive process, which he connects to narrative imagining in order to assert that narrative is a central tool for communicating understanding. Demonstrating the effects that literary works have on their readers, he examines academic critical analysis, responses of the reading public and nonfictional writings that include autobiographical testimony to their writer's influences and attitudes to life. In doing so, he provides empirical evidence of the cognitive benefits of literature and of how readers demonstrate the growth of their understanding. By drawing on the written testimony of the reader, this book is an important intervention into debates on the value of literature that incorporates understanding in new and imaginative ways.

Why Does Literature Matter?

Author : Frank B. Farrell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721453
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Why Does Literature Matter? written by Frank B. Farrell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Literature matters because... it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of texts carry out these functions in so exceptional a manner that we owe it to past and future members of the species to keep such texts alive in our cultural traditions."—from Chapter One Frank B. Farrell defends a rich conception of the space of literature that retains its links to issues of self-formation and metaphysics and does not let that space collapse into just another reflection of social space. He maintains that recent literary theory has badly misread findings in the philosophy of language and the theory of subjectivity. That misreading, Farrell says, has tended to endorse ways of understanding literature that make one question why it matters at all. Farrell here opposes some recent theoretical trends and, through a mix of philosophical and literary studies, tells us why in his view literature does truly matter.Among the writers Farrell discusses are John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Amit Chaudhuri, Cormac McCarthy, James Merrill, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, and John Updike. The philosophers important to his arguments include Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, and Bernard Williams; G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ludwig Wittgenstein play roles as well. Among the literary theorists addressed are Stephen Greenblatt, Paul de Man, and Marjorie Perloff. In addition to his close readings of literary, philosophical, and critical texts, Farrell considers cultural studies and postcolonial studies more generally and speculates on the possible contributions of object-relations theory in psychology to the study of literature.

Revolution of the Ordinary

Author : Toril Moi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022646444X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Revolution of the Ordinary written by Toril Moi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy—a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell—to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril Moi demonstrates this philosophy’s unique ability to lay bare the connections between words and the world, dispel the notion of literature as a monolithic concept, and teach readers how to learn from a literary text. Moi first introduces Wittgenstein’s vision of language and theory, which refuses to reduce language to a matter of naming or representation, considers theory’s desire for generality doomed to failure, and brings out the philosophical power of the particular case. Contrasting ordinary language philosophy with dominant strands of Saussurean and post-Saussurean thought, she highlights the former’s originality, critical power, and potential for creative use. Finally, she challenges the belief that good critics always read below the surface, proposing instead an innovative view of texts as expression and action, and of reading as an act of acknowledgment. Intervening in cutting-edge debates while bringing Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell to new readers, Revolution of the Ordinary will appeal beyond literary studies to anyone looking for a philosophically serious account of why words matter.

The Literary Wittgenstein

Author : John Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113443894X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Wittgenstein written by John Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stellar collection of articles relating the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to core problems in the theory and philosophy of literature, written by the most prominent figures in the field.