What is fiction for? : literary humanism restored / Bernard Harrison.
What is fiction for? : literary humanism restored / Bernard Harrison.
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Publisher
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
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G 2015/4478
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxvi, 593 pages ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Getting real. Humanism and its discontents ; The mirror of nature ; Truth, meaning, and human reality ; Leavis and Wittgenstein (1) : a living language ; Leavis and Wittgenstein (2) : the "third realm" -- Character, language, and human worlds. Nature and artifice ; Virginia Woolf and "the true reali...
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Place of Publication
Indiana
Date Published
[2015]
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Summary
"How can literature, which consists of nothing more than the description of imaginary events and situations, offer any insight into the workings of "human reality" or "the human condition"? Can mere words illuminate something that we call "reality"? Bernard Harrison answers these questions in this profoundly original work that seeks to re-enfranchi...
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What is fiction for? : literary humanism restored / Bernard Harrison.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-579) and index.
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G 2015/4478
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74VKzwKV0JQy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzwKV0JQy
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ISBN
9780253014085 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
0253014085 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780253014061 (hbk.)
0253014069 (hbk.)
DDC
809.3
MMS ID
991023324449702626
