Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts

ISBN-13: 9780367337056 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 182 str.

Jon Phelan

Opis

Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader’s close analysis of a literary text.

Spis treści

1. Literary Fiction as a Subgenre of Both Literature and Fiction.  2. Literary Cognitivism, Anti-cognitivism and Non-cognitivism.  3. Understanding Others from Understanding Literary Fiction.  4. The Cognitive Gain from Reading Literary Fiction as Literature.  5.How Understanding Literary Fiction relates to the World beyond Literary Fiction

O autorze

J. W. Phelan is Director of Studies in Philosophy at Wolfson College and at Homerton College, Cambridge. His research focusses on many different issues in the philosophy of literature and literary criticism.