Informationen zum Autor Richard Eldridge is Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. Klappentext This volume contains twenty-three newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life. Various forms of attention are considered under the headings of Genres, Periods, Devices and Powers, and Contexts and Uses. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains twenty-three newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life. Various forms of attention are considered under the headings of Genres (from Ancient Epic to the Novel and Contemporary Experimental Writing), Periods (from Realism and Romanticism to Postcolonialism), Devices and Powers (Imagination, Plot, Character, Style, and Emotion), and Contexts and Uses (in relation to inquiry, morality, and politics). In each case, the effort is to track and evaluate how specific modes and works of imaginative literature answer to important needs of human subjects for orientation, the articulation of interest in life, and the working through of emotion, within situations that are both sociohistorical and human. Hence these essays show how and why literature matters in manifold ways in and for human cultural life, and they show how philosophers and imaginative literary writers have continually both engaged with and criticized each other. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors Introduction--Philosophy and Literature as Forms of Attention Richard Eldridge Part I. Genres 1. Epic Gregory Nagy 2. Lyric Susan Stewart 3. Tragedy J. M. Bernstein 4. Comedy Timothy Gould 5. Pastoral Mark Payne 6. Satire R. Bracht Branham 7. The Novel Anthony J. Cascardi 8. Autobiography and Biography Stephen Mulhall 9. Experimental Writing R. M. Berry Part II. Periods and Modes 10. Realism Bernard Harrison 11. Romanticism Nikolas Kompridis 12. Idealism Toril Moi 13. Modernism Philip Weinstein 14. Postcolonialism Simona Bertacco Part III. Devices and Powers 15. Imagination Kirk Pillow 16. Plot Alan Singer 17. Character Stanley Bates 18. Style Charles Altieri 19. Emotion, Memory, and Trauma Glenn W. Most Part IV. Contexts and Uses 20. Literature and Knowledge John Gibson 21. Literature and Morality: Ted Cohen 22. Literature and Politics Fred Rush Index ...

Autorentext
Richard Eldridge is Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College.

Klappentext

This volume contains twenty-three newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life. Various forms of attention are considered under the headings of Genres, Periods, Devices and Powers, and Contexts and Uses.

Zusammenfassung
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains twenty-three newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life. Various forms of attention are considered under the headings of Genres (from Ancient Epic to the Novel and Contemporary Experimental Writing), Periods (from Realism and Romanticism to Postcolonialism), Devices and Powers (Imagination, Plot, Character, Style, and Emotion), and Contexts and Uses (in relation to inquiry, morality, and politics). In each case, the effort is to track and evaluate how specific modes and works of imaginative literature answer to important needs of human subjects for orientation, the articulation of interest in life, and the working through of emotion, within situations that are both sociohistorical and human. Hence these essays show how and why literature matters in manifold ways in and for human cultural life, and they show how philosophers and imaginative literary writers have continually both engaged with and criticized each other.

Inhalt

• Contributors

• Introduction--Philosophy and Literature as Forms of Attention

• Richard Eldridge

• Part I. Genres

• 1. Epic

• Gregory Nagy

• 2. Lyric

• Susan Stewart

• 3. Tragedy

• J. M. Bernstein

• 4. Comedy

• Timothy Gould

• 5. Pastoral

• Mark Payne

• 6. Satire

• R. Bracht Branham

• 7. The Novel

• Anthony J. Cascardi

• 8. Autobiography and Biography

• Stephen Mulhall

• 9. Experimental Writing

• R. M. Berry

• Part II. Periods and Modes

• 10. Realism

• Bernard Harrison

• 11. Romanticism

• Nikolas Kompridis

• 12. Idealism

• Toril Moi

• 13. Modernism

• Philip Weinstein

• 14. Postcolonialism

• Simona Bertacco

• Part III. Devices and Powers

• 15. Imagination

• Kirk Pillow

• 16. Plot

• Alan Singer

• 17. Character

• Stanley Bates

• 18. Style

• Charles Altieri

• 19. Emotion, Memory, and Trauma

• Glenn W. Most

• Part IV. Contexts and Uses

• 20. Literature and Knowledge

• John Gibson

• 21. Literature and Morality:

• Ted Cohen

• 22. Literature and Politics

• Fred Rush

• Index