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What Is Fiction For? : Literary Humanism Restored /
"How can literature, which consists of nothing more than the description of imaginary events and situations, offer any insight into the workings of "human reality" or "the human condition"? Can mere words illuminate something that we call "reality"? Bernard Harriso...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 Getting Real; 1 Humanism and Its Discontents; 2 The Mirror of Nature; 3 Truth, Meaning, and Human Reality; 4 Leavis and Wittgenstein (1): A Living Language; 5 Leavis and Wittgenstein (2): The Third Realm
- Part 2 Character, Language, and Human Worlds; 6 Nature and Artifice; 7 Virginia Woolf and the True Reality
- 8 Aharon Appelfeld and the Problem of Holocaust Fiction; 9 The Limits of Authorial License in Our Mutual Friend; Part 3 Against The Meaning of the Work
- 10 Reactive versus Interpretive Criticism11 Houyhnhnm Virtue; 12 Sterne and Sentimentalism; Part 4 The Skeptic Side; 13 Reanimating the Author; 14 Persons and Narratives; 15 Reading and Reading-In; 16 Meaning It Literally: Derrida and His Critics Revisited; Epilogue: Telling the Great from the Good; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.