Literature and truth : imaginative writing as a medium for ideas /

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Author / Creator:	Lansdown, Richard, 1961- author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
Description:	xiv, 222 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Costerus New Series, 0165-9618 ; volume 222 Costerus ; new ser., v. 222.
Subject:	Imagination in literature. Literature -- History and criticism. Literature -- Philosophy. Literature -- Aesthetics. Imagination in literature. Literature. Literature -- Aesthetics. Literature -- Philosophy. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11417940

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ISBN:	9789004356849 9004356843
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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.

Table of Contents:

Part 1. "Nothing affirms and therefore never lieth": Cognitive and non-cognitive accounts of imaginative literature
"The birthplace of truth": Collingwood's Speculum Mentis
Part 2. The printed medium: Wordsworth and books
Stoicism and Christianity: Byron's Don Juan
Evangelicalism and evolution: James Montgomery's Pelican Island
Tragedy and evolution: The Woodlanders
Humanism and after: Ibsen's Little Eyolf
Politics and art: James Kelman's Not not while the giro
From the other shore: Bronislaw Malinowski's A diary in the strict sense of the term

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