Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature

Andrea Selleri is Associate Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK, where he completed a PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies. His work on Victorian intellectual history has appeared in various journals and he is currently writing a monograph on the idea of the author in nineteenth-century literary criticism.Philip Gaydon is a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, UK. His research focuses on nineteenth-century children’s literature and virtue epistemology. He is currently creating a teaching and learning handbook for the university, teaches on imagination and ethical development, facilitates Philosophy in primary schools, and coaches women’s American Football at university and international level.

• Introduction.- PART I: INTERDISCIPLINARY ACTION IN THEORY.- 1. Criticism, Philosophy and the Differend; Catherine Belsey.- 2. The Discipline of Literary Studies; Stein H. Olsen.- 3. Analytic Philosophy of Literature: Problems and Prospects; Jukka Mikkonen.- PART II: INTERDISCIPLINARY INTERACTION IN PRACTICE.- 4. ‘I will draw a map of what you never see’: Cartographic Metaphor in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations; Mike Rose-Steel.- 5. The Pleasures of Solipsism for Writers and Philosophers; Ery Shin.- 6. To Tell What Happened as Invention: Literature and Philosophy on Learning From Fiction; Manuel García Carpintero.- PART III: USING THE PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE IN LITERARY STUDIES.- 7. Poetic Utterances: Attuning Poetry and Philosophy; Maximilian de Gaynesford.- 8. Reading as Fiction and Reading as Non-Fiction; Derek Matravers.- 9. The Opacity of Testimony; or, what the philosophy of literature cantell us about how to read Holocaust narratives; Samuel O’Donoghue.- PART IV: USING LITERARY STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE.- 10. Literary Examples in Analytical Aesthetics: The Claim of the Particular; Andrea Selleri.- 11. What Do We Do With Words? Framing What is at Stake in Dealing with Literature; Marianna Ginocchietti and Giulia Zanfabro.- 12. Digital Literature and its Departure from the Supremacy of the Author Function; Heiko Zimmermann.- Bibliography.- Index.-