How to Do Things With Fictions

Zusatztext [Landy's] responses to the texts are personal! lively and - in parts - spectacularly acute. He is at his best as a close reader when he is examining Mark's gospel! or discussing "the cosmic magnitude" of Mallarmé's "ses purs ongles" sonnet. Informationen zum Autor Joshua Landy teaches French at Stanford University, where he co-founded and co-directs the Initiative in Philosophy and Literature. He is author of Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust and editor, with Michael Saler, of The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age. Klappentext How to Do Things with Fictions considers how fictional works, ranging from Chaucer to Beckett, subject readers to a series of exercises meant to fortify their mental capacities. Zusammenfassung How to Do Things with Fictions considers how fictional works, ranging from Chaucer to Beckett, subject readers to a series of exercises meant to fortify their mental capacities.

Product details

• Authors: Landy, Joshua Landy, Landy Joshua
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2012
• EAN: 9780195188561
• ISBN: 978-0-19-518856-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights