Literature and understanding : the value of a close reading of literary texts /
Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader's close analysis of a literary text. It examines the meaning of literature', outlines the most prominent positions in the literary cognitivism debate, explores the practice of close readin...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2021
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Literary fiction as a subgenre of both literature and fiction -- Fiction -- Literature -- Literary fiction -- 2 Literary cognitivism, anti-cognitivism and non-cognitivism -- Literary cognitivism -- Literary anti-cognitivism -- Literary non-cognitivism -- The literariness of literary cognitivism -- 3 Understanding others from understanding literary fiction -- Understanding human thought and action -- Five senses of 'understanding' -- Close analysis and interpretation -- The charge of elitism -- The charge of subjectivity -- 4 The cognitive gain from reading literary fiction as literature -- Irony -- Particularity and precision -- Particularity -- Precision -- Metaphor -- Perspective -- Ambiguity -- Repetition -- Aesthetic effectiveness -- Close analysis and intellectual virtue -- 5 How understanding literary fiction relates to the world beyond literary fiction -- The standard account of checking literary fiction against the world -- Concession to the standard account -- Objections to the standard account -- My thesis as an alternative model -- Truth-tracking vs truth-trailing relations -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix: The affliction -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader's close analysis of a literary text. It examines the meaning of literature', outlines the most prominent positions in the literary cognitivism debate, explores the practice of close reading from a philosophical perspective, provides a fresh account of what we mean by understanding' and in so doing opens up a new area of research in the philosophy of literature. This book provides a different reply to the challenge that we can't learn anything worthwhile from reading literary fiction. It makes the innovative case that reading literary fiction as literature rather than as fiction stimulates five relevant senses of understanding. The book uses examples of irony, metaphor, play with perspective and ambiguity to illustrate this contention. Before arguing that these five senses of understanding bridge the gap between our understanding of a literary text and our understanding of the world beyond that text. The book will be of great interest for researchers, scholars and post-graduate students in the fields of aesthetics, literary theory, literature in education and pedagogy. | ||
| 545 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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