LEADER 03737nam 2200565 450 001 9910817452603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-253-01412-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000347854 035 $a(EBL)1931721 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001421745 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12611265 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001421745 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11423275 035 $a(PQKB)10716705 035 $a(OCoLC)902915889 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse44793 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1931721 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11014772 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1931721 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000347854 100 $a20150213h20152015 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhat is fiction for? $eliterary humanism restored /$fBernard Harrison 210 1$aBloomington, Indiana :$cIndiana University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (623 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-01408-5 311 $a0-253-01406-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 Getting Real; 1 Humanism and Its Discontents; 2 The Mirror of Nature; 3 Truth, Meaning, and Human Reality; 4 Leavis and Wittgenstein (1): A Living Language; 5 Leavis and Wittgenstein (2): The ""Third Realm""; Part 2 Character, Language, and Human Worlds; 6 Nature and Artifice; 7 Virginia Woolf and ""the True Reality""; 8 Aharon Appelfeld and the Problem of Holocaust Fiction; 9 The Limits of Authorial License in Our Mutual Friend; Part 3 Against ""The Meaning of the Work"" 327 $a10 Reactive versus Interpretive Criticism11 Houyhnhnm Virtue; 12 Sterne and Sentimentalism; Part 4 The Skeptic Side; 13 Reanimating the Author; 14 Persons and Narratives; 15 Reading and Reading-In; 16 Meaning It Literally: Derrida and His Critics Revisited; Epilogue: Telling the Great from the Good; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z 330 $a"How can literature, which consists of nothing more than the description of imaginary events and situations, offer any insight into the workings of "human reality" or "the human condition"? Can mere words illuminate something that we call "reality"? Bernard Harrison answers these questions in this profoundly original work that seeks to re-enfranchise reality in the realms of art and discourse. In an ambitious account of the relationship between literature and cognition, he seeks to show how literary fiction, by deploying words against a background of imagined circumstances, allows us to focus on the roots, in social practice, of the meanings by which we represent our world and ourselves. Engaging with philosophers and theorists as diverse as Wittgenstein, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Derrida, F. R. Leavis, Cleanth Brooks, and Stanley Fish, and illustrating his ideas through readings of works by Swift, Woolf, Appelfeld, and Dickens, among others, this book presents a systematic defense of humanism in literary studies, and of the study of the Humanities more generally, by a distinguished scholar"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aFiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 676 $a809.3 686 $aLIT006000$2bisacsh 700 $aHarrison$b Bernard$f1933-$0196622 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817452603321 996 $aWhat is fiction for$93931535 997 $aUNINA