Arthur Gibson

What is Literature?

Buch

The answer to the question 'what is literature?' has not been found. This is the first book-length attempt to find the answer, by one author, since Sartre in his 1948 book with the same title. The book addresses issues such as: how does literature speak to the world; what is great writing; what is originality; what sorts of truths are there, if any, in creative writing? The book uses hundreds of literary examples, and confronts them with philosophy. The book also explores some big questions about the meaning of life, and sets them against a range of literature. It asks questions like: how does great science relate to literature? The book adva… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-03910-916-6
EAN: 9783039109166
Produktnummer: 19895306
Verlag: Lang, Peter
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 530 S.
Masse: H22.3 cm x B14.9 cm x D3.5 cm 762 g
Gewicht: 762

Über den Autor

The Author: Arthur Gibson studied, and for a number of years taught, philosophy at the University of Cambridge and is Professor of Philosophy at Roehampton University. He has been a visiting fellow at the Cambridge University Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law and a guest philosopher at various universities including Columbia, New York University, and at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Professor Gibson is currently preparing for publication a hitherto unknown archive of Wittgenstein's manuscripts at Trinity College.