
Literature and Truth
Imaginative Writing as a Medium for Ideas
Richard Lansdown(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 16. November 2017
Book
Hardback
236 pages
978-90-04-35684-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 by British philosopher R. G. Collingwood in particular, in his Speculum Mentis. It then offers six case-studies from the Romantic era to the contemporary one as to how imaginative authors have variously dealt with bodies of discursive thought such as Stoicism, Christianity, evolution, humanism, and socialism. It concludes with a reading going in the other direction, in which the diary of Bronislaw Malinowski is seen in terms of the anthropologist's reading habits during his legendary Trobriander fieldwork.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-35684-9 (9789004356849)
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Person
Richard Lansdown, Ph.D. (1989), University College London, is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Groningen. He has published numerous books and articles on English Romantic literature, as well as The Autonomy of Literature (2001).
Content
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part 1
1 "Nothing Affirms and Therefore Never Lieth": Cognitive and Non-cognitive Accounts of Imaginative Literature
2 "The Birthplace of Truth": Collingwood's Speculum Mentis
Part 2
3 The Printed Medium: Wordsworth and Books
4 Stoicism and Christianity: Byron's Don Juan
5 Evangelicalism and Evolution: James Montgomery's Pelican Island
6 Tragedy and Evolution: Hardy's The Woodlanders
7 Humanism and After: Ibsen's Little Eyolf
8 Politics and Art: James Kelman's Not Not While the Giro
9 From the Other Shore: Malinowski's Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Part 1
1 "Nothing Affirms and Therefore Never Lieth": Cognitive and Non-cognitive Accounts of Imaginative Literature
2 "The Birthplace of Truth": Collingwood's Speculum Mentis
Part 2
3 The Printed Medium: Wordsworth and Books
4 Stoicism and Christianity: Byron's Don Juan
5 Evangelicalism and Evolution: James Montgomery's Pelican Island
6 Tragedy and Evolution: Hardy's The Woodlanders
7 Humanism and After: Ibsen's Little Eyolf
8 Politics and Art: James Kelman's Not Not While the Giro
9 From the Other Shore: Malinowski's Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index