Description: Bernard Harrison is Emeritus E. E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah and Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Sussex, UK. He is author of Inconvenient Fictions: Literature and the Limits of Theory; The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism: Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion; and (with Patricia Hanna) Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language. Preface Introduction PART I: Getting Real 1. Humanism and its Discontents 2. The Mirror of Nature 3. Truth, Meaning and Reality 4. Leavis and Wittgenstein (I): A Living Language 5. Leavis and Wittgenstein (II): The "Third Realm" PART II: Character, Language and Human Worlds 6. Nature and Artifice 7. Virginia Woolf and "The True Reality" 8. Aharon Appelfeld and the Problem of Holocaust Fiction 9. The Limits of Authorial License in Our Mutual Friend PART III: Against "The Meaning of the Work" 10. Reactive versus Interpretive Criticism 11. Houyhnhnm Virtue 12. Sterne and Sentimentalism PART IV: The Skeptic Side 13. Reanimating the Author 14. Persons and Narratives 15. Reading and Reading-In 16. Meaning It Literally: Derrida and his Critics Revisited Epilogue: Telling the Great from the Good Notes Bibliography Index
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EAN: 9780253014061
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Item Length: 22.9 cm
Book Title: What Is Fiction For?: Literary Humanism Restored
Item Height: 229mm
Item Width: 152mm
Author: Bernard Harrison
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Literature
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication Year: 2014
Item Weight: 971g
Number of Pages: 620 Pages
