Truth and Wonder is an accessible introduction to Plato and Aristotle, showing their crucial influence for literary and cultural studies, modern languages and related disciplines. It focuses on both ...what Plato and Aristotle say about literature and how they say it, and so demonstrates the ways their philosophies still shape our reading, thinking and living.
In the clear and engaging style for which he has become known, Robert Eaglestone uses Plato and Aristotle’s literary qualities to explain their thought. He presents Plato’s ideas through the metaphors, stories and style of his dialogues, and Aristotle’s ideas through the significance of narrative. Truth and Wonder draws on a wide range of thinkers including Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and Martha Nussbaum, and a number of canonical writers including Phillip Sidney, Percy Shelley, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Iris Murdoch with examples that will be familiar to students.
The ideas of Plato and Aristotle underlie much of Western culture, continue to inspire contemporary literary and philosophical work and shape the case for the central importance of the humanities today. Truth and Wonder is essential reading for students and researchers in the study of literature, theory and criticism as well as for those wishing to understand the foundations of the field. It will also be of interest to those studying philosophy, classics and political theory. Its accessible style and approach also mean it’s a perfect starting point for any literary-minded person who wants to know more about these two foundational thinkers.
Paul Gordon proposes a new theory of art as synaesthetic and applies this idea to various media, including works--such as movies, illustrated books and song lyrics--that explicitly cross over into ...media involving the different senses. The idea of art as synaesthetic is not, however, limited to those "cross-over" works because even an individual poem or novel or painting calls upon different senses in creating its syn-aesthetic "meaning.”" Although previous studies have often devolved into those who see an obvious connection between art and synaesthesia and those who adamantly reject such a notion, Synaesthetics furthers our understanding of synaesthesia as an important, if not essential, component of artistic expression.
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. The five senses of understanding then 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.
The question of the relation between philosophy and literature is, in the present contribution, approached from the notion of reflexivity as it appears in the thinking of Herder and Gadamer. ...Following up on Gadamer's critique of the Kantian and post‐Kantian idea of the autonomy of art, literature is considered a reflective discourse that at an existential level harvests insights that can be used in a fruitful exchange with philosophy. As an example of the reflexivity of literature, an analysis of Julio Cortázar's short story ‘The Continuity of Parks’ appears at the end of the article.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Zum Geleit
Academia
Rolf Parr
Lesen als Experiment.
Kultur- und medienwissenschaftliche Perspektiven
Tanja Nusser
Das „atemlose Stocken der Zeit“.
Die Vielfalt akademischer ...Zeit(-lichkeiten) oder das Schrumpfen
der wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Gegenwart
Guillaume van Gemert
Narrentheater, Mördergrube, Verblödungsanstalt?
Vom allmählichen Verschwinden der Alma Mater
aus dem deutschen Universitätsroman
Poetik – Ästhetik – Didaktik
Martin Schubert
Hartmann, Thomas Mann und Oulipo.
Der Gregorius-Stoff im experimentellen Roman
Simone Loleit
Der Sperling, der Schneider und die ‚dürre Moral‘.
Ein Platztausch in den „Kinder- und Hausmärchen“
der Brüder Grimm und seine poetologischen Implikationen ...
Jörg Wesche
Barockpoetik und Übersetzung.
Antwortversuch
„… so träumt sie doch letzthin Revolution“.
Zu Ernst Blochs Unterscheidung von Kitsch und Kolportage ...
Peter Ellenbruch
Rehmann, Klingler & Co. –
oder: die Gebäude der Bundesrepublik
Peter Bekes
Textgenese – Interpretation – Didaktik
Heinrich Böll
Corinna Schlicht
Hate Speech und Antifeminismus.
„Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum“ revisited
Walter Delabar
Misslungene Liebe, schlechter Krieg und die Sinnfrage.
Heinrich Bölls „Wo warst du, Adam?“
Literatur des 17. bis 21. Jahrhunderts
Gaby Herchert
Wenn Vernunft sich verstecken muss.
Verschwörungstheorien in Alessandro Manzonis Roman
„Die Brautleute“
Heinz Eickmans
Flandern als völkischer Mythos im Werk rheinischer Autoren.
Zu den ‚flämischen‘ Romanen „Der Bürger von Gent“
von Theodor Seidenfaden und „Fliegt der Blaufuß?“ von Otto Brües
Erhard Schütz
Städtebund und Stahlhaus.
Erik Regers kritische Revision der Kultur im Ruhrgebiet
Walter Fähnders
Aktionskünstler, Dadaisten, Surrealisten und andere Figuren
der Avantgarde im Gegenwartsroman –
oder: „Was kann die Avantgarde heute sein?“
Elke Reinhardt-Becker
Ein sachlich-romantisches Liebesdurcheinander.
Katrin Hollands Roman „Man spricht über Jacqueline“
Jochen Vogt
Jörg und ich.
Eine Ferienerinnerung
Julia Bertschik
‚Benachbartes und Entferntes‘.
Zu Brigitte Kronauers poetologischen Lektüre –
„Favoriten“ des 19. Jahrhunderts
Hannes Krauss
Poetisches Engagement?
Handke und Jugoslawien
Liane Schüller
Das „Ende der mentalen Privatsphäre“.
Anmerkungen zu Überwachung und Künstlicher Intelligenz
in Ian McEwans „Mashines like me (and people like you)“
Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger
From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the ...crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century and argues that a knowledge of tragedy from the works of Sophocles to Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett can help us understand them. Jennifer Wallace offers a cultural analysis of the tragic events of the past two decades with reference to a litany of key dramatic texts, including Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripides' Hecuba, Iphigenia in Aulis, Trojan Women and Bacchae, Homer's Iliad, Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean and Enemy of the People, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Macbeth and King Lear, among others.
This article explores the literary, philosophical, and phenomenological dimensions of neighbor‐love. Phenomenologically speaking, neighborly love must be given, that is, it must be given voluntarily ...through attitudes, actions, or gestures. But whom do we actually acknowledge as our neighbor, and why? Adopting a comparative literary approach, this paper argues that literature is not philosophy's adversary but its creative interlocutor: Ilse Aichinger's poem “Foundling” transcends anthropocentric perspectives, presenting the Neighbor as a being beyond denomination by translating it from human to animal. Doris Lessing's novel The Diary of a Good Neighbour depicts the unpredictable and accidental nature of encounters with the Neighbor, leaving no room for personal choice. Ultimately, Amélie Nothomb's Les catilinaires illustrates how the Neighbor can be a persistent annoyance that both irritates and resists systematic thinking. These literary works outline a nuanced poetics of neighbor‐love and givenness that extends beyond any anthropological, theological, or religio‐ethical concept.
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