The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0195182634 ISBN 13: 9780195182637

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2009

Riassunto

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains 23 newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life. Various forms of attention are considered under the headings of Genres (from Ancient Epic to the Novel and Contemporary Experimental Writing), Periods (from Realism and Romanticism to Postcolonialism), Devices and Powers (Imagination, Plot, Character, Style, and Emotion), and Contexts and Uses (in relation to inquiry, morality, and politics). In each case, the effort is to track and evaluate how specific modes and works of imaginative literature answer to important needs of human subjects for orientation, the articulation of interest in life, and the working through of emotion, within situations that are both sociohistorical and human. Hence these essays show how and why literature matters in manifold ways in and for human cultural life, and they show how philosophers and imaginative literary writers have continually both engaged with and criticized each other.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Richard Eldridge is Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College

Contenuti:

• 1: Introduction
• Genres
• 2: Gregory Nagy: Epic
• 3: Susan Stewart: Lyric
• 4: J. M. Bernstein: Tragedy
• 5: Timothy Gould: Comedy
• 6: Mark Payne: Pastoral
• 7: R. Bracht Branham: Satire
• 8: Anthony J. Cascardi: The Novel
• 9: Stephen Mulhall: Autobiography and Biography
• 10: R. M. Berry: Experimental Writing
• Periods
• 11: Bernard Harrison: Realism
• 12: Nikolas Kompridis: Romanticism
• 13: Toril Moi: Idealism
• 14: Philip Weinstein: Modernism
• 15: Simona Bertacco: Postcolonialism
• Devices and Powers
• 16: Kirk Pillow: Imagination
• 17: Alan Singer: Plot
• 18: Stanley Bates: Character
• 19: Charles Altieri: Style
• 20: Glenn W. Most: Emotion, Memory, and Trauma
• Contexts and Uses
• 21: John Gibson: Literature and Knowledge
• 22: Ted Cohen: Literature and Morality
• 23: Fred Rush, Philosophy: Literature and Politics

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0195182634
• ISBN 13: 9780195182637
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 536
• Redattore: Eldridge Richard