| Description |
xiii, 344 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 7 |
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Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 6
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| Contents |
1. Introduction : the prospects of literary cognitivism / John Gibson -- Pt. I. Knowledge through literary fiction -- 2. Learning from literature / Peter Iamarque -- 3. Literary realism, recognition, and the communication of knowledge / Noel Carroll -- 4. The laboratory of the mind / Catherine Z. Elgin -- 5. "How could you?" : deeper understanding through fiction / Susan I. Feagin -- 6. Aharon Appelfeld and the problem of Holocaust fiction / Bernard Harrison -- 7. The return of the repressed : caring about literature and its themes / Luga Pocci -- 8. Lewis Carroll : fugitive from reality? / A. D. Nuttall -- Pt. II. Narrating worlds and selves -- 9. Philosophy as/and/of literature / Arthur C. Danto -- 10. The ends of narrative / Richard Eldridge -- 11. Narrative catharsis / Garry I. Hagberg -- 12. Postmodern narratives of the past : Simon Schama / Lubomir Dolezel -- 13. En Abyme : internal models and cognitive mapping / Brian Mchale -- 14. Traveling stories : knowledge, activism, and the humanities / Linda Hutcheon -- Pt. III. The poetic, the dramatic, and the real -- 15. Poetry and cognition / Eileen John -- 16. Why read literature? : the cognitive function of form / Wolfgang Huemer -- 17. "The way light at the edge of a bench in autumn is learned" : literature as learning / Frank B. Farrell -- 18. Wonder in The winter's tale : a cautionary account of epistemic criticism / Charles Altieri -- Pt. IV. Imagination, objectivity, and culture -- 19. Legends and myths / Kendall L. Walton -- 20. Literature and make-believe / Joseph Margolis -- 21. Art and the view from nowhere / Alex Burri -- 22. Culture : a recursive process / Wolfgang Iser |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
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Reality in literature.
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| Author |
Gibson, John, 1969-
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Huemer, Wolfgang, 1968-
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Pocci, Luca.
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| LC no. |
2006101416 |
| ISBN |
020394027X (ebk.) |
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0415701910 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780203940273 (ebk.) |
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9780415701914 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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