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The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings - An AnthologyISBN: 978-1-4051-1208-6
Paperback
384 pages
February 2004, ©2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgments.
Preface.
Part I: Classic Sources.
Introduction.
1. Republic: Plato.
2. Poetics: Aristotle.
3. Of Tragedy: David Hume.
4. The Birth of Tragedy: Friedrich Nietzsche.
5. Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming: Sigmund Freud.
Part II: Definition of Literature.
Introduction.
6. Spazio: Arrigo Lora-Totino.
7. What Isn't Literature?: E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
8. The Concept of Literature: Monroe Beardsley.
9. Literary Practice: Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen.
10. What Is Literature?: Robert Stecker.
Part III: Ontology of Literature.
Introduction.
11. Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote: Jorge Luis Borges.
12. Literary Works as Types: Richard Wollheim.
13. Literature: J. O. Urmson.
14. Can the Work Survive the World?: Nelson Goodman and Catherine Elgin.
15. Work and Text: Gregory Currie.
Part IV: Fiction.
Introduction.
16. Doonesbury: Garry Trudeau.
17. The Logical Status of Fictional Discourse: John Searle.
18. Truth in Fiction: David Lewis.
19. What Is Fiction?: Gregory Currie.
20. Fiction and Nonfiction: Kendall Walton.
21. Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts: Amie Thomasson.
22. Logic and Criticism: Peter Lamarque.
Part V: Emotion.
Introduction.
23. Applicant: Harold Pinter.
24. How Can We Be Moved by the Fate of Anna Karenina?: Colin Radford.
25. Fearing Fictionally: Kendall Walton.
26. The Pleasures of Tragedy: Susan Feagin.
27. Tragedy and the Community of Sentiment: Flint Schier.
Part VI: Metaphor.
Introduction.
28. Essay on What I Think about Most: Anne Carson.
29. Metaphor: Max Black.
30. What Metaphors Mean: Donald Davidson.
31. Metaphor and Feeling: Ted Cohen.
32. Metaphor and Prop Oriented Make-Believe: Kendall Walton.
Part VII: Interpretation.
Introduction.
33. Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism, And for What?: Wayne C. Booth.
34. Criticism as Retrieval: Richard Wollheim.
35. The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as a Regulative Ideal: Alexander Nehamas.
36. Art Interpretation: Robert Stecker.
37. Art, Intention, and Conversation: Noël Carroll.
38. Intention and Interpretation: Jerrold Levinson.
39. Style and Personality in the Literary Work: Jenefer Robinson.
Part VIII: Literary Values.
Introduction.
40. Xingu: Edith Wharton.
41. On the Cognitive Triviality of Art: Jerome Stolnitz.
42. Literature and Knowledge: Catherine Wilson.
43. Finely Aware and Richly Responsible: Martha Nussbaum.
44. Literature, Truth, and Philosophy: Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen.
45. The Ethical Criticism of Art: Berys Gaut.
Index