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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2019
      January 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108290746
      9781108418669
      9781108406291
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108290746
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 150 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.236kg, 154 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy of Mind and Language, Philosophy, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
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    Taking as its starting point what is sometimes called 'the prison house of language' - the widespread feeling that language falls terribly short when it comes to articulating the rich and disparate contents of the human mental tapestry - this book sets out a radically new view of the interplay between language, literature and mind. Shifting the focus from the literary text itself to literature as a case of human agency, it reconsiders a wide range of interdisciplinary issues including the move from world to mind, the existence or otherwise of a property of literariness or essence of art, the nature of literature as a unique output of human cognition and the possible distinctiveness of the mind that creates it. In constant dialogue with philosophy, linguistics and the cognitive sciences, this book offers an invaluable new treatment of literature and literary language, and sketches novel directions for literary study in the twenty-first century.

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    'Probably the best book on literature, language and mind I have ever read. It makes a case for genuinely reciprocal interdisciplinary practices and points the way to epistemologically more robust study in the arts and humanities. It will be hugely influential.'

    Tim Wharton - University of Brighton

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