Literature, Voice, Meaning

Philosophical Aspects

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between conceptions of meaning and the interpretation of literature, but there remains a need for a book that both introduces and significantly contributes to an elucidation and understanding of the ways that voice and tone contribute to the determination of meaning.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-01
Mått:148 x 210 x 26 mm
Vikt:611 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:371
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031713064

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Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College; his most recent book is Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood (2023).

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Varieties of Meaning within Interpretive Criticism.- 1. I. A. Richards and the Meaning of Criticism, Daniel Braun.- 2. "That Which is Its Own Evidence”: Oscar Wilde and the Platonic Dialogue, Shyam Vijay Patel.- 3. Rethinking Dramatic Irony with George Eliot's Silas Marner, Lucas Thompson.- Part II. Meaning Lost and Found.- 4. The Pursuit of Meaning in Beckett’s Watt: A Success Story, Shoshana Benjamin.- 5. Robert Frost’s Dharma and Ours: On Teaching “Directive", K. Narayana Chandran.- 6. Plays, Words, and Meaning, Carola Barbero.- Part III. J. L. Austin, Stanley Cavell, and the Necessity of Community.- 7. Self-Affirmation and Uncooperative Communication in HaroldPinter's No Man's Land.- Ivan Nyusztay.- 8. Stanley Cavell between Friends and Strangers, CJ Higgins.- 9. The Appalling Business of Amit Chaudhuri, Paul Deb.- Part IV. Distinctive Voices, Saying, and the Intricacies of the Spoken.- 10. Finding One’s Voice: Talk, Knowledge, and Intimacy in Diderot’s D’Alembert’s Dream, Rudolphus Teeuwen.- 11. Voice and Meaning in Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove, Garry L. Hagberg.- 12. Poet of Joy: Nietzschean Motifs in Philip Larkin, David Gelineau.- Part V. Pictures and Powers of Literary Language.- 13. Saussure, Bergson, and the Future of Literary Theory, David Lehner.- 14. Art and Information: A Few Unsystematic Suggestions, William James Earle.- 15. Philosophy and the Force of Metaphor, Nina Belmonte.