Language, Truth, and Literature

A Defence of Literary Humanism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20009859
AutoresRichard Gaskins (0000-0003-2101-4674, autor correspondente), Richard Gaskin
Ano2013
Páginas376
Data de publicação2013-04-18
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoLanguage Truth And Literature A Defence Of Literary Humanism (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199657902.001.0001
OpenAlexW4247431757
Open LibraryOL26037520M
ISBN9780199657902
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9

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