World-Making : : The Literary Truth-Claim and the Interpretation of Texts / / Mario Valdes.

In literary texts writers express their views on a great variety of issues, some of which they take seriously, others of which they treat with levity. Even in those statements to which cultural circumstances assign a transcendent meaning there is a wide range of commitment from marginal to central c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1992
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter one. A Phenomenological Approach to the Aporia of Truth in Literature
  • Chapter two. The Truth-Claim and Literature
  • Chapter three. The Analysis of the Truth-Claim in Literary Discourse
  • Chapter four. The Textual Function of Truth-Claims: Jacob's Room, Death of a Salesman, and 'Prose of Death's Head'
  • Chapter five. The Historical Study of Truth-Claims
  • Chapter six. The Phenomenology of the Truth-Claim
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Theory /Culture Series