UID:
almahu_9949386455202882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781000200980
,
1000200981
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9780429321382
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0429321384
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9781000201147
,
1000201147
,
9781000201062
,
1000201066
Series Statement:
Literature and education
Content:
Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader's close analysis of a literary text. It examines the meaning of literature', outlines the most prominent positions in the literary cognitivism debate, explores the practice of close reading from a philosophical perspective, provides a fresh account of what we mean by understanding' and in so doing opens up a new area of research in the philosophy of literature. This book provides a different reply to the challenge that we can't learn anything worthwhile from reading literary fiction. It makes the innovative case that reading literary fiction as literature rather than as fiction stimulates five relevant senses of understanding. The book uses examples of irony, metaphor, play with perspective and ambiguity to illustrate this contention. Before arguing that these five senses of understanding bridge the gap between our understanding of a literary text and our understanding of the world beyond that text. The book will be of great interest for researchers, scholars and post-graduate students in the fields of aesthetics, literary theory, literature in education and pedagogy.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 0367337053
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367337056
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429321382
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429321382
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