The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature

Description

This comprehensive Handbook presents the major perspectives within philosophy and literary studies on the relations, overlaps and tensions between philosophy and literature. Drawing on recent work in philosophy and literature, literary theory, philosophical aesthetics, literature as philosophy and philosophy as literature, its twenty-nine chapters plus substantial Introduction and Afterword examine the ways in which philosophy and literature depend on each other and interact, while also contrasting with each other in that they necessarily exclude or incorporate each other. This book establishes an enduring framework for structuring the broad themes defining the relations between philosophy and literature and organising the main topics in the field. Key Features • Structured in five parts addressing philosophy as literature, philosophy of literature, philosophical aesthetics, literary criticism and theory, and main areas of work within philosophy and literature • An Introduction setting out the main concerns of the field through discussion of the major themes along with the individual topics • An Afterword looking at the interactions between philosophy and literature through itself enacting philosophical and literary writing while examining the question of how they can be brought together The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature is an essential resource for scholars, researchers and advanced students in philosophy of literature, philosophy as literature, literary theory, literature as philosophy, and the philosophical aesthetics of literature. It is an ideal volume for researchers, advanced students and scholars in philosophy, literary studies, philosophy and literature, cultural studies, classical studies and other related fields. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction (Barry Stocker)....Pages 1-37 Front Matter ....Pages 39-39 What Is Philosophical Dialogue? (S. Montgomery Ewegen)....Pages 41-59 ‘Situating the Essay: Between Philosophy and Literature?’ (Michelle Boulous Walker)....Pages 61-79 Narrativity in Variation: Merleau-Ponty and Murdoch on Literary and Philosophical Narratives (Niklas Forsberg)....Pages 81-98 On Philosophy and Poetry (Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei)....Pages 99-122 ‘No One Is the Author of His Life’: Philosophy, Biography, and Autobiography (Christopher Hamilton)....Pages 123-142 Aphorisms and Fragments (Guy Elgat)....Pages 143-162 Front Matter ....Pages 163-163 Myth (Tudor Balinisteanu)....Pages 165-183 Epic (Michael Weinman)....Pages 185-202 Philosophy and Drama (Lior Levy)....Pages 203-220 Lyric Poetry (Mathew Abbott)....Pages 221-239 Philosophy of the Novel (Barry Stocker)....Pages 241-261 Romance (Marsha S. Collins)....Pages 263-291 Front Matter ....Pages 293-293 Analytic Aesthetics (Jukka Mikkonen)....Pages 295-314 Fictions of Human Development: Renaissance Cognitive Philosophy and the Romance (Isabel Jaén)....Pages 315-339 Hermeneutics (Hanna Meretoja)....Pages 341-364 Phenomenology (Alexander Kozin, Tanja Staehler)....Pages 365-384 Language, Ontology, Fiction (Frederick Kroon, Alberto Voltolini)....Pages 385-406 Deconstruction: Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics (Simon Morgan Wortham)....Pages 407-425 Front Matter ....Pages 427-427 Literature as Theory: Literature and Truths (Michael Mack)....Pages 429-441 Rhetoric (Rosaleen Keefe)....Pages 443-466 Feminism and Gender (Kimberly J. Stern)....Pages 467-487 Psychoanalysis (Will Long)....Pages 489-517 Postcolonialism (Bill Ashcroft)....Pages 519-537 Front Matter ....Pages 539-539 Law and the Literary Imagination: The Continuing Relevance of Literature to Modern Legal Scholarship (Julia J. A. Shaw)....Pages 541-559 Politics and Literature (Michael Keren)....Pages 561-579 Thought Experiments at the Edge of Conceptual Breakdown (İlhan İnan)....Pages 581-600 Ethics and Literature (Liesbeth Korthals Altes, Hanna Meretoja)....Pages 601-621 Literature and Political Economy (Aaron Kitch)....Pages 623-643 Religion and Literature: Exegesis, Hermeneutics, Post-Modern Theories (Shira Wolosky)....Pages 645-664 Poetry’s Truth of Dialogue (Michael Mack)....Pages 665-677 Back Matter ....Pages 679-779