Alan Singer

Attending to the Literary (eBook, PDF)

The Distinctiveness of Literature

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature is a foray into current debates about the nature of the literary. The book speaks to a broad audience of readers for whom the question "Why literature matters?" remains an urgent intellectual challenge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000920499
• Artikelnr.: 68368450

Autorenporträt

Alan Singer is Professor Emeritus of English at Temple University. He has written extensively in the fields of literary theory, aesthetics, and the visual arts. His publications include Posing Sex: Towards a Perceptual Ethics (2018) and The Self-Deceiving Muse: Notice and Knowledge in the Work of Art (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Literature as Staging for Human Capacities: Snarling the Allegory

1. The Mirror of Attention: Affording Literarity



2. Sense and Sentences: Writing the Prose of the World



3. Reading for Experience: The Compositional Ethos



4. The Potentiality of the Reader



5. Literarity and Possibility

Bibliography

Index