Literature and Belief : English Institute Essays • 1957 /
A collection of essays on the topic of belief -- or the suspension of disbelief -- in the reading and appreciation of literature. While the essays display diverse approaches to the topic, they all agree that a work of literature is to be apprehended for its inherent and terminal values, but that it...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[1958]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | A collection of essays on the topic of belief -- or the suspension of disbelief -- in the reading and appreciation of literature. While the essays display diverse approaches to the topic, they all agree that a work of literature is to be apprehended for its inherent and terminal values, but that it involves assumptions and beliefs and sympathies with which a large measure of concurrence is indispensable for the reading of literature as literature and not another thing. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
ISBN: | 9780231885737 9783110442489 |
Acceso: | restricted access |