A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature

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Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell (2007)
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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

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PN501.C626 2010

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9781405184861   9781405197182   9781444315608   9781405141703   9780470979051   9781118963876   1118963873   1405141700   1444315609
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Exemplification and expression.Charles Altieri
Styles of selfishness.Daniel Brudney
Styles of Self‐Absorption.Daniel Brudney
Tragedy and philosophy.Anthony J. Cascardi
Macbeth appalled.Stanley Cavell
At Play in the Fields of Metaphor.Ted Cohen
Wittgenstein and literary language.Jon Cook & Rupert Read
Narrative, imitation, and point of view.Gregory Currie
Philosophy and/as/of literature.Arthur C. Danto
Henry James, moral philosophers, moralism.Cora Diamond
Truth in poetry : particulars and universals.Richard Eldridge
How and what we can learn from fiction.Mitchell Green
Introduction.Garry L. Hagberg & Walter Jost
Self-defining reading : literature and the constitution of personhood.Garry L. Hagberg
Literature and the idea of morality.Eileen John
Philosophy and literature and rhetoric : adventures in polytopia.Walter Jost
The experience of reading.Peter Kivy
Literature and truth.Peter Lamarque
Passion, Counter-Passion, Catharsis : Beckett and Flaubert on feeling nothing.Joshua Landy
Passion, Counter‐Passion, Catharsis: Flaubert (and Beckett) on Feeling Nothing.Joshua Landy
Catharsis.Jonathan Lear
Authorial intention and the varieties of intentionalism.Paisley Livingston
Getting inside Heisenberg's head.Ray Monk
Perceptive equilibrium : literary theory and ethical theory.Martha C. Nussbaum
Biography in literary criticism.Stein Haugom Olsen
Emotion and the understanding of narrative.Jenefer Robinson
Iago's Elenchus : Shakespeare, Othello, and the platonic inheritance.Mark Rowe
Feeling fictions.Roger Scruton
Philosophy and literature : friends of the earth.Roger Shiner
Philosophy as literature and more than literature.Richard Shusterman
Art as techne or the intentional fallacy and the unfinished project of formalism.Henry Staten

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