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1 online resource (325 pages) |
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Introduction: a chain of associations -- 'Kant has not answered Hume': Hume, Coleridge and the romantic imagination -- Signs of mind and the return of the native: Wordsworth to Yeats -- Strange attractors and the conversible world: Hume, Sterne, Dickens -- The mythic method and the foundations of modern literary criticism -- Chaos and conversation: Pater, Joyce, Woolf -- The lyrical epic and the singularity of literature |
| Summary |
This study traces the development of philosophies of literary creativity within the British empiristic tradition, examining everything from David Hume's 'Treatise of Human Nature' to I.A. Richards' 'Principles of Literary Criticism' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-318) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Psychological aspects
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Authorship -- Psychological aspects.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Authorship -- Psychological aspects
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Psychological aspects
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English literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780748628162 |
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0748628169 |
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9780748652044 |
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0748652043 |
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