Understanding Fiction: Knowledge and Meaning in Literature - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3897857901 ISBN 13 : 9783897857902

Editeur : Brill Mentis, 2012

Synopsis

The book addresses the questions how literature can convey knowledge and how literary meaning can arise in the face of the fact that fictional texts waive the usual claim to truth. Based on the interdisciplinary cooperation of literary scholars and analytic philosophers, the present anthology attempts a) to analyze the possibility and conditions of gaining know - ledge through literature, and b) to apply, in a fruitful way, philosophical theories of meaning and interpretation to the constitution of meaning within the language of literature. The project is guided by the hypothesis that the cognitive function of literature cannot be understood without such fundamental modelings of the complex interaction of meaning, truth and knowledge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill Mentis
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3897857901
• ISBN 13: 9783897857902
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Daiber Jürgen, Konrad Eva-Maria, Petraschka Thomas
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible