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Title
Modern language, philosophy and criticism / Wayne Deakin.
ISBN
9783031304941 electronic book
3031304942 electronic book
9783031304934
3031304934
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 191 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-30494-1 doi
Call Number
PN81 .D43 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
801/.95
Summary
This books delineates the seismic shifts of the twentieth century humanities by way of a close examination of the dynamic landscape of modern language, criticism and philosophy. In this manner, it argues that both philosophy and literary criticism have dovetailed in the twenty-first century. Starting out as a survey of literary criticism in its broadest terms, later chapters - which are more expository - assess recent movements within modern literary theory. These are located with respect to the post-Russell and Fregean "linguistic turn" in philosophy. Designed for specialists and non-specialists alike; philosophers, literary critics and even students of the modern critical tradition, the argument takes a novel stance towards modern criticism, language and philosophy, arguing for a return to a more formalist and rhetorical approach to literary criticism, while taking care not to indulge too many "political pathologies" when engaging with texts. Wayne Deakin is Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer in Literature and Language in the Department of English at Chiang Mai University in Thailand. He is the author of Hegel and the English Romantic Tradition (2015) and numerous journal articles and book reviews.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface
Chapter 1: What is Literary Criticism?
Chapter 2: A brief (but timely) History of Literary Criticism
Chapter 3: The Philosophical self-consciousness of the New Criticism and Formalism
Chapter 4: Structuralism, Semiotics and Ordinary Language Doubts
Chapter 5: Linguistic Twists, Turns and Dovetails in the Modern Humanities
Chapter 6: Literary Méditations Hégéliennes
Chapter 7: Whither Postmodernism? Whether it's New Liberalism?
Chapter 8: Phronesis in Literary Criticism : the Pragmatic Denouement
Chapter 9: In Through the Outdoor.
