Language, Truth, and Literature

A Defence of Literary Humanism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20009859
AutoresRichard Gaskins (0000-0003-2101-4674, autor de correspondencia), Richard Gaskin
Año2013
Páginas376
Fecha de publicación2013-04-18
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaLanguage Truth And Literature A Defence Of Literary Humanism (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199657902.001.0001
OpenAlexW4247431757
Open LibraryOL26037520M
ISBN9780199657902
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

Richard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par with scientific investigation

Linguistics · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Philosophy · Aesthetics · History and criticism · Humanism in literature · Literature · Literature, aesthetics · Literature, Modern · Literature, modern, history and criticism · Modern Literature · Theory