59 Result(s)
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Literature and Political Economy
The modern definitions of “political economy” and “literature” emerged around the same time in eighteenth-century Britain, although both concepts were centuries in the making. One important work that anticipa...
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Philosophy and Drama
Drama is a text written for performance. How do performances, which are particular and unstable, shape drama as a text? What is the relationship between the text and the performances it intends to generate? Th...
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Introduction
The Introduction discusses the field of philosophy and literature and how it is composed of work in literary theory, literary criticism, philosophical aesthetics, and philosophy of literature as well as work v...
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Philosophy of the Novel
This chapter looks at the major thinkers about the philosophy of the novel over time. Giambattista Vico is identified as the first major figure, though he did not write about the novel, because his writing abo...
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‘Situating the Essay: Between Philosophy and Literature?’
Discussion of the relations between philosophy and literature inevitably hits up against the question of boundaries. Perhaps no more so than in the case of the essay. While some position the essay as an autono...
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Analytic Aesthetics
Analytic philosophy of literature explores general concepts, such as ‘literature’, ‘fiction’, ‘narrative’, and ‘meaning’, on the one hand, and the practice of literature, on the other hand. Typical for the app...
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On Philosophy and Poetry
Philosophical debates about poetry center on its relation to truth. While even its critics tend to admit that poetry can convey truth, others propose a mode of truthfulness that is distinctly poetic. Phenomeno...
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Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is a field of inquiry that explores the phenomenon of interpretation. This chapter provides an overview of some of the main approaches to hermeneutics—as a philosophy of interpretation and of lite...
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Literature as Theory: Literature and Truths
This chapter analyses and questions a philosophical demotion of literature. It does so by proposing a new understanding of truth as not only declarative and conceptual but also relational and dialogical. It in...
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Aphorisms and Fragments
This chapter’s aim is to explore various views on the relation of the aphoristic and fragmentary form to philosophy: what philosophical purpose does this form serve? What is the philosophy behind the use of th...
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Language, Ontology, Fiction
This chapter is about ontological issues that arise in the context of discourse within and about fiction and fictional characters. Our main focus will be on the divide between broadly realist accounts of ficti...
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Feminism and Gender
This chapter presents an overview of major shifts in feminist theory from the latter part of the twentieth century to the present day, highlighting the recuperative power of critical approaches that have somet...
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Epic
This chapter hopes simultaneously to meet two central aims. First, to introduce the rivalry between philosophy and epic, beginning from “the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry” reported by Plato in Rep...
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Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism deals with the effects of colonization on cultures and societies and those societies’ responses. While the analysis of the controlling power of representation began with Fanon in the 1950s and ...
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Politics and Literature
My argument in this chapter is that fiction enlightens us about political reality. In a world in which millions are fed misinformation on social media, and media-savvy politicians turn into demigods, I claim, ...
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Religion and Literature: Exegesis, Hermeneutics, Post-Modern Theories
Literature and religion have often been neighboring rivals, each offering multiple dimensions of meaning to experience. Each also has been traditionally defined in terms of a governing unity. But post-metaphys...
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Ethics and Literature
This chapter discusses a range of approaches to the intersections of literature and ethics. After a brief historical perspective on debates waged in relation to literature and ethics, a number of approaches ar...
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Lyric Poetry
This chapter characterises an aspect of the relationship between philosophy and lyric poetry by giving an account of poetic thought: a mode of thinking in which philosophical contributions are made poetically....
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What Is Philosophical Dialogue?
Through a close reading of a number of Platonic dialogues—namely, the Cratylus, the Gorgias, the Theaetetus, and the Apology—this chapter sheds light upon the event of philosophical dialogue, as well as upon the ...
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Romance
This chapter synthesizes the varied debates and paradoxes, literary and philosophical, identified with the enduring and capacious genre of romance from classical antiquity to the present day, such as the statu...
