Literature and Truth : Imaginative Writing As a Medium for Ideas.
- 1st ed.
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- Costerus New Series ; v.222 .
- Costerus New Series .
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.