Richard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism, according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par with scientific investigation.
Richard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism, according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par with scientific investigation.
Professor Richard Gaskin was educated at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, held a Lectureship in philosophy at the University of Sussex from 1991 to 1997, and then a Readership from 1997 until 2001, when he moved to his current post as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He has held visiting fellowships at the University of Bonn, University of Edinburgh, and University of Mainz.
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Contents Preface 1: Language, text, and world 2: Literature, fact, and fiction 3: Literary humanism: sense, reference, and knowledge 4: Literary humanism: analytical objections and responses 5: Reception theory and meaning 6: Literature and ambiguity 7: The status of authorial intentions 8: Deconstruction and meaning 9: Deconstruction and pragmatism 10: Literary language, science, and the world 11: Form, content, and ideology 12: Ideology and literary humanism References Index
Contents Preface 1: Language, text, and world 2: Literature, fact, and fiction 3: Literary humanism: sense, reference, and knowledge 4: Literary humanism: analytical objections and responses 5: Reception theory and meaning 6: Literature and ambiguity 7: The status of authorial intentions 8: Deconstruction and meaning 9: Deconstruction and pragmatism 10: Literary language, science, and the world 11: Form, content, and ideology 12: Ideology and literary humanism References Index
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