The Philosophy of Literature - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter LamarqueSeries:Foundations of the Philosophy of the ArtsPublish date:7/1/2008Pages:352
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wiley-BlackwellISBN-13:9781405121989ISBN-10:140512198XUPC:9781405121989Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, AestheticsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.499Product ID:SCN15EG4XB
By exploring central issues in the philosophy of literature, illustrated by a wide range of novels, poems, and plays, Philosophy of Literature gets to the heart of why literature matters to us and sheds new light on the nature and interpretation of literary works.
- Provides a comprehensive study, along with original insights, into the philosophy of literature
- Develops a unique point of view - from one of the field's leading exponents
- Offers examples of key issues using excerpts from well-known novels, poems, and plays from different historical periods
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wiley-BlackwellISBN-13:9781405121989ISBN-10:140512198XUPC:9781405121989Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, AestheticsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.499Product ID:SCN15EG4XB
Peter Lamarque is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. He is the author of Fictional Points of View (1996) and co-author, with Stein Haugom Olsen, of Truth, Fiction and Literature: A Philosophical Perspective (1994). He was editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics from 1995-2008, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He edited Philosophy and Fiction (1983), Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Language (1997), and (with Stein Haugom Olsen) Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition, An Anthology (Blackwell, 2003).
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