TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Literature and truth : imaginative writing as a medium for ideas
T2  - Costerus
A1  - Lansdown, Richard, 1961- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Leiden ; Boston
PB  - Brill Rodopi
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.3093556
AB  - In 'Literature and Truth' Richard Lansdown continues a discussion concerning the truth-bearing status of imaginative literature that pre-dates Plato. The book opens with a general survey of contemporary approaches in philosophical aesthetics, and a discussion of the contribution to the question made by British philosopher R. G. Collingwood in particular, in his 'Speculum Mentis'. It then offers six case-studies from the Romantic era to the contemporary one as to how imaginative authors have variously dealt with bodies of discursive thought such as Stoicism, Christianity, evolution, humanism, and socialism. It concludes with a reading going in the other direction, in which the diary of Bronislaw Malinowski is seen in terms of the anthropologist?s reading habits during his legendary Trobriander fieldwork.
SN  - 978-90-04-35684-9 sidottu
KW  - Imagination in literature.
KW  - Literature : History and criticism.
KW  - Literature : Philosophy.
KW  - Literature : Aesthetics.
ER  -