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Literature and understanding : the value of a close reading of literary texts
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- Summary
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Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader's close analysis of a literary text.
Details
- Creator
- J. W. Phelan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (203 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780367337056, 0429321384, 1000200981, 0367337053
- Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Literary fiction as a subgenre of both literature and fiction -- Fiction -- Literature -- Literary fiction -- 2 Literary cognitivism, anti-cognitivism and non-cognitivism -- Literary cognitivism -- Literary anti-cognitivism -- Literary non-cognitivism -- The literariness of literary cognitivism -- 3 Understanding others from understanding literary fiction -- Understanding human thought and action -- Five senses of 'understanding' -- Close analysis and interpretation -- The charge of elitism -- The charge of subjectivity -- 4 The cognitive gain from reading literary fiction as literature -- Irony -- Particularity and precision -- Particularity -- Precision -- Metaphor -- Perspective -- Ambiguity -- Repetition -- Aesthetic effectiveness -- Close analysis and intellectual virtue -- 5 How understanding literary fiction relates to the world beyond literary fiction -- The standard account of checking literary fiction against the world -- Concession to the standard account -- Objections to the standard account -- My thesis as an alternative model -- Truth-tracking vs truth-trailing relations -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix: The affliction -- Bibliography -- Index