A companion to the philosophy of literature
By: edited by Garry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost
Series: Blackwell companions to philosophy -- 44; Blackwell companions to philosophy -- 44.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, U.K; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9781444315608
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM; Literature; Bellettrie; Semiotics & Theory; Philosophy; Filosofie; History and criticism
Description: 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, id.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Garry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost; title: Relations between philosophy and literature; title: Philosophy as literature and more than literature / Richard Shusterman; title: Philosophy and literature : friends of the earth? / Roger A. Shiner; title: Philosophy and literature, and rhetoric : adventures in polytopia / Walter Jost; title: Philosophy and/as/of literature / Arthur C. Danto; title: Emotional engagement and the experience of reading; title: Emotion and the understanding of narrative / Jenefer Robinson; title: Feeling fictions / Roger Scruton; title: The experience of reading / Peter Kivy; title: Self-defining reading : literature and the constitution of personhood / Garry L. Hagberg; title: Philosophy, tragedy, and literary form; title: Tragedy and philosophy / Anthony J. Cascardi; title: Iago's Elenchus : Shakespeare, Othello, and the Platonic inheritance / M.W. Rowe; title: Catharsis / Jonathan Lear; title: Passion, counter-passion, catharsis : Flaubert (and Beckett) on feeling nothing / Joshua Landy; title: Literature and the moral life; title: Perceptive equilibrium : literary theory and ethical theory / Martha C. Nussbaum; title: Henry James, moral philosophers, moralism / Cora Diamond; title: Literature and the idea of morality / Eileen John; title: Styles of self-absorption / Daniel Brudney; title: Narrative and the question of literary truth; title: Narrative, imitation, and point of view / Gregory Currie; title: How and what we can learn from fiction / Mitchell Green; title: Literature and truth / Peter Lamarque; title: Truth in poetry : particulars and universals / Richard Eldridge; title: Intention and biography in criticism; title: Authorial intention and the varieties of intentionalism / Paisley Livingston; title: Art as techne, or, the intentional fallacy and the unfinished project of formalism / Henry Staten; title: Biography in literary criticism / Stein Haugom Olsen; title: Getting inside Heisenberg's head / Ray Monk; title: On literary language; title: Wittgenstein and literary language / Jon Cook and Rupert Read; title: Exemplification and expression / Charles Altieri; title: At play in the fields of metaphor / Ted Cohen; title: Macbeth appalled / Stanley Cavell.