Literature, Voice, Meaning

Philosophical Aspects
2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-71306-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 371 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 611 g

There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between conceptions of meaning and the interpretation of literature, but there remains a need for a book that both introduces and significantly contributes to an elucidation and understanding of the ways that voice and tone contribute to the determination of meaning. Only rarely have considerations of voice been brought together with considerations of meaning-determination (the work of Stanley Cavell, covered in one section of this book, is a leading example). This volume thus offers an analytically acute and culturally rich way of understanding how it is that we can productively think philosophically about meaning in language and literature in a more inclusive, expansive, and indeed human way.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hagberg, Garry L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Varieties of Meaning within Interpretive Criticism.- 1.  I. A. Richards and the Meaning of Criticism, 2.  "That Which is Its Own Evidence”: Oscar Wilde and the Platonic Dialogue, Patel.- 3. Rethinking Dramatic Irony with George Eliot's Part II. Meaning Lost and Found.- 4. The Pursuit of Meaning in Beckett’s A Success Story.  Robert Frost’s Dharma and Ours: On Teaching “Directive", 6.Plays, Words, and Meaning Part III. J. L. Austin, Stanley Cavell, and the Necessity of Community.- 7. Self-Affirmation and Uncooperative Communication in HaroldPinter's 8.  Stanley Cavell between Friends and Strangers, .  The Appalling Business of Amit Chaudhuri, Part IV. Distinctive Voices, Saying, and the Intricacies of the Spoken.- 10. Finding One’s Voice: Talk, Knowledge, and Intimacy in Diderot’s 11.  Voice and Meaning in Henry James’s 12.  Poet of Joy: Nietzschean Motifs in Philip Larkin, Part V. Pictures and Powers of Literary Language.- 13. Saussure, Bergson, and the Future of Literary Theory, 14. Art and Information: A Few Unsystematic Suggestions, 15. Philosophy and the Force of Metaphor,

Über Autor(innen)

Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College; his most recent book is  (2023).