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Literature and Truth : Imaginative Writing As a Medium for Ideas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Costerus New SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (236 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004356856
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Literature and TruthLOC classification:
  • PN56.I45 .L367 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Literature and Truth: Imaginative Writing as a Medium for Ideas -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Part 1 -- 1 "Nothing Affirms and Therefore Never Lieth": Cognitive and Non-cognitive Accounts of Imaginative Literature -- 2 "The Birthplace of Truth": Collingwood's Speculum Mentis -- Part 2 -- 3 The Printed Medium: Wordsworth and Books -- 4 Stoicism and Christianity: Byron's Don Juan -- 5 Evangelicalism and Evolution: James Montgomery's Pelican Island -- 6 Tragedy and Evolution: Hardy's The Woodlanders -- 7 Humanism and After: Ibsen's Little Eyolf -- 8 Politics and Art: James Kelman's Not Not While the Giro -- 9 From the Other Shore: Bronislaw Malinowski's A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In Literature and Truth Richard Lansdown examines the relation of literature to truth by tracing the presence of discursive ideas and paradigms in imaginative works.
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Intro -- Literature and Truth: Imaginative Writing as a Medium for Ideas -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Part 1 -- 1 "Nothing Affirms and Therefore Never Lieth": Cognitive and Non-cognitive Accounts of Imaginative Literature -- 2 "The Birthplace of Truth": Collingwood's Speculum Mentis -- Part 2 -- 3 The Printed Medium: Wordsworth and Books -- 4 Stoicism and Christianity: Byron's Don Juan -- 5 Evangelicalism and Evolution: James Montgomery's Pelican Island -- 6 Tragedy and Evolution: Hardy's The Woodlanders -- 7 Humanism and After: Ibsen's Little Eyolf -- 8 Politics and Art: James Kelman's Not Not While the Giro -- 9 From the Other Shore: Bronislaw Malinowski's A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Literature and Truth Richard Lansdown examines the relation of literature to truth by tracing the presence of discursive ideas and paradigms in imaginative works.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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