The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (Oxford Handbooks) - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0199965498 ISBN 13: 9780199965496

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2013

Riassunto

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains twenty-three 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.

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L'autore:

Richard Eldridge is Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College.

Contenuti:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199965498
• ISBN 13: 9780199965496
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 538
• Redattore: Eldridge Richard