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

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (568 p.)
• Disciplina: 801
• Soggetto topico: Literature - History and criticism; Literature - Philosophy
• Altri autori: HagbergGarry <1952-> JostWalter <1951->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to the philosophy of literature
• ISBN: 1-4051-8486-8; 1-78268-632-0; 1-282-45510-9; 9786612455100; 1-4051-9718-8; 1-4443-1559-5; 1-4443-1560-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819427403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to philosophy.