Language, truth, and literature : a defence of literary humanism / Richard Gaskin.
Language, truth, and literature : a defence of literary humanism / Richard Gaskin.
Language, truth, and literature : a defence of literary humanism / Richard Gaskin.
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Oxford Oxford University Press, 2013.
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G 2014/5727
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English
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xvii, 376 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Language, Text, and World -- 1.The context principle -- 2.Meaning and its varieties -- 3.Linguistic idealism, realism, and pragmatism -- 4.Linguistic idealism and modernism -- 5.Text and world -- 2.Literature, Fact, and Fiction -- 6.Humanism and value -- 7.The defi...
Contents note continued: 4.Literary Humanism: Analytical Objections and Responses -- 23.Prepositional and non-propositional knowledge -- 24.Reference and cognitive value -- 25.Truth and aesthetic value -- 26.Co-assertibility and contradiction (I) -- 27.Co-assertibility and contradiction (II) -- 5.Re...
Contents note continued: 43.Linguistic idealism and the signifier---signified distinction -- 44.Understanding and semiotic replacement -- 45.Mention and use -- 46.Privacy and dialogue -- 47.Establishing the text -- 48.The hermeneutic circle revisited -- 9.Deconstruction and Pragmatism -- 49.Deconstr...
Contents note continued: 63.Literary theory and intellectual standards -- 64.Literary humanism and politics.
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Publisher
Oxford Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2013.
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"According to the literary humanist, works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of their production and which is the same for all readers, then and thereafter, not subject to the vagaries of individual readers' responses. Such works refer to the real world and make statements about that world which are of c...
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Language, truth, and literature : a defence of literary humanism / Richard Gaskin.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-369) and index.
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G 2014/5727
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74VKJXbQOwAl
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0199657904
9780199657902
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801
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991022203399702626
