Title: Language, truth, and literature : a defence of literary humanism /
Authors: Gaskin, Richard, 1960-
Year: 2013
Subjects: Literature Philosophy; Humanism in literature.; Literature, Modern History and criticism Theory, etc.; Literature Aesthetics
Abstract: Richard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par with scientific investigation.