Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Literary aesthetics and literary practice
- Interpretation and intention
- Authorial intention
- Text and meaning
- The ‘meaning’ of a literary work
- Defining a literary work
- What is poetics?
- On unilluminating criticism
- Criticism and appreciation
- Value-judgements in criticism
- Literature, fiction, and reality. A problematic relationship
- Thematic concepts: where philosophy meets literature
- Literary theory and literary aesthetics
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Literary aesthetics and literary practice
- Interpretation and intention
- Authorial intention
- Text and meaning
- The ‘meaning’ of a literary work
- Defining a literary work
- What is poetics?
- On unilluminating criticism
- Criticism and appreciation
- Value-judgements in criticism
- Literature, fiction, and reality. A problematic relationship
- Thematic concepts: where philosophy meets literature
- Literary theory and literary aesthetics
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The End of Literary Theory , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1987