Thinking with literature [electronic resource] : towards a cognitive criticism / Terence Cave.

Thinking with literature [electronic resource] : towards a cognitive criticism / Terence Cave.

9780191817328 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

©2016

English

1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages)

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198749417 doi

PN81 .C398 2016eb

801.95

To speak of 'thinking with literature' is to make the assumption that literature (in the broadest sense) is neither a side-show nor a side-issue in human cultures: it belongs to the spectrum of imaginative modes that includes both philosophical and scientific thought. Whether one regards it as a practice or as an archive, literature is highly pervasive, robust, enduring, and pregnant with values. This book argues that what it affords above all is a way of thinking, whether for writer, reader, or critic.

To speak of 'thinking with literature' is to make the assumption that literature (in the broadest sense) is neither a side-show nor a side-issue in human cultures: it belongs to the spectrum of imaginative modes that includes both philosophical and scientific thought. Whether one regards it as a practice or as an archive, literature is highly pervasive, robust, enduring, and pregnant with values. This book argues that what it affords above all is a way of thinking, whether for writer, reader, or critic.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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