A Ricoeur Reader : : Reflection and Imagination / / Paul Ricoeur; ed. by Mario Valdes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Ricoeur, Paul,
• MitwirkendeR: Hirsch, E.D.,
• HerausgeberIn: Valdes, Mario,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (516 p.)

Paul Ricoeur is one of the most important modern literary theorists and a philosopher of world renown. This collection brings together his published articles, papers, reviews, and interviews that focus on literary theory and criticism. The first of four sections includes early pieces that explore the philosophical foundations for a post-structural hermeneutics. The second contains reviews and essays in which Ricoeur engages in debate over some of the central themes of literary theory, including figuration/configuration and narrativity. In the third section are later essays on post-structuralist hermeneutics, and in the fourth, interviews in which he discusses text, language, and myths. Mario Valdés provides an introduction to the literary theories of Paul Ricoeur and the works in this collection particularly. He also includes a complete bibliography of Ricoeur's works that have appeared in English.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Paul Ricoeur's Post-Structuralist Hermeneutics -- I / Philosophical Context for a Post-Structuralist Hermeneutics -- What Is a Text? Explanation and Understanding -- Word, Polysemy, Metaphor: Creativity in Language -- Appropriation -- The Human Experience of Time and Narrative -- The Function of Fiction in Shaping Reality -- Mimesis and Representation -- II / The Dialectic of Engagement -- Habermas -- Geertz -- Construing and Constructing: A Review of The Aims of Interpretation -- Review of Nelson Goodman's Ways of Worldmaking -- The Conflict of Interpretations: Debate with Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism, or the Order of Paradigms -- Greimas's Narrative Grammar -- On Narrativity: Debate with A.J. Greimas -- III / Aspects of Post-Structuralist Hermeneutics -- Metaphor and the Main Problem of Hermeneutics -- Writing as a Problem for Literary Criticism and Philosophical Hermeneutics -- Narrated Time -- Time Traversed: Remembrance of Things Past -- Between the Text and Its Readers -- Life: A Story in Search of a Narrator -- IV/ The Dialogical Disclosure: Interviews with Paul Ricoeur -- Phenomenology and Theory of Literature -- Poetry and Possibility -- The Creativity of Language -- Myth as the Bearer of Possible Worlds -- World of the Text, World of the Reader -- PAUL RICOEUR'S WORK IN ENGLISH -- INDEX