UID:
almafu_9960117004502883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 182 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-55381-1
Content:
This book is an attempt to offer a justification for the teaching of literature in schools and universities, and is intended as a contribution to the philosophy of literary education. The issues which Dr Gribble discusses could all be bracketed under the general heading of the relationship between literature and life. The book is written for those readers and teachers of literature who step back from their immediate engagement with a novel, play, or poem and ask such questions as 'What knowledge or understanding, if any, have I gained from the work? Of what significance is the author's intention to my view of the work? What moral value does the work possess? What kinds of feelings or emotions did I experience? How did my identification with certain characters influence my response? In what way did the moral significance or emotional impact depend upon the quality of the writing? What part does critical analysis play in determining the answers to any of these questions?'. Dr Gribble's treatment of these issues is neither technical nor abstract but advanced on the basis of particular examples drawn from a wide range of literature. Written in a lively and lucid style the book will interest all serious readers of literature, although it is primarily directed at those who teach literature in schools, colleges, and universities and who are necessarily concerned with the educative value of reading and discussing literature.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover ; Hlf-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements ; Introduction Literature, life and education: some problems about how they relate to one another ; 1 Literature and truth ; (a) Introduction ; (b) Truth and'reality'in literature ; (c) Truth and 'sincerity' in literature. 2 Literary criticism and literary education (a) The irreducibility of literature ; (b) Testing literary appreciation ; (c) The relations between literary critical concepts ; (d) Enactment and realization : the signs of something grasped and held. (E) Real experience and realization in literature 3 Objectivity and subjectivity in literary education ; 4 The subordination of criticism to theory: structuralism and deconstructionism ; 5 Literature and the education of the emotions. (A) 'Cognitive' and 'affective' objectives in literary education : a false dichotomy (b) Emotions in literature and emotions in life ; (c) Literature as an alternative to life ; 6 Empathy and literary education ; (a) Empathy and wish-fulfilment. (B) Empathy with real people and empathy with characters in fiction 7 Literary intention and literary education page ; (a) Generative and operative intention in literature ; (b) Against intention ; 8 Literature, morality and censorship ; Notes ; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-27308-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-25315-2
Language:
English
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511553813
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