Philosophical Approaches to Literature: New Essays on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century TextsThis volume presents eleven new essays that reveal how significant nineteenth-and twentieth-century writers have drawn from, and in some cases, opposed major trends in philosophy. Essays in this collection deal with Tennyson, Coleridge, Woolf, Faulkner, De Quincey, Beckett, romance as a genre, the state of contemporary literary theory as shaped by the writings of Wittgenstein, Ricoeur and Derrida, and other topics. |
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Contents
| 27 | |
Some Lyric Examples | 51 |
Antinomy and Irony in De Quinceys Sir William Hamilton | 73 |
Philosophys Copernican Revolution and American Literary Dialectics | 91 |
Dickens and Thackeray Woolf and Beckett | 117 |
Virginia Woolf and the Prose of the World | 140 |
As I Lay Dying | 165 |
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| Title | Philosophical Approaches to Literature: New Essays on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Texts New Essays on Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Texts |
| Author | Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English William E Cain |
| Editor | William E. Cain |
| Publisher | Bucknell University Press, 1984 |
| ISBN | 0838750559, 9780838750551 |
| Length | 257 pages |
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