Literature and truth : : imaginative writing as a medium for ideas / / by Richard Lansdown.
In Literature and Truth Richard Lansdown continues a discussion concerning the truth-bearing status of imaginative literature that pre-dates Plato. The book opens with a general survey of contemporary approaches in philosophical aesthetics, and a discussion of the contribution to the question made b...
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| Superior document: | Costerus New Series, Volume 222 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2018. ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Costerus ;
Volume 222. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (222 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part 1
- “Nothing Affirms and Therefore Never Lieth”: Cognitive and Non-cognitive Accounts of Imaginative Literature
- “The Birthplace of Truth”: Collingwood’s Speculum Mentis
- Part 2
- The Printed Medium: Wordsworth and Books
- Stoicism and Christianity: Byron’s Don Juan
- Evangelicalism and Evolution: James Montgomery’s Pelican Island
- Tragedy and Evolution: Hardy’s The Woodlanders
- Humanism and After: Ibsen’s Little Eyolf
- Politics and Art: James Kelman’s Not Not While the Giro
- From the Other Shore: Bronislaw Malinowski’s A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term
- Conclusion.