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Reckoning with the imagination : Wittgenstein and the aesthetics of literary experience /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Altieri, Charles, 1942- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, > 1889-1951 > Aesthetics.
Criticism.
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, > 1889-1951.
Aesthetics.
Literature > Theory, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Why Wittgenstein matters for literary theory
  • The work texts do : toward a phenomenology of imagining imaginatively
  • Where doubt has no purchase : the roles of display
  • The concept of expression in the arts
  • Expression and exemplification
  • What literary theory can learn from Wittgenstein's silence about ethics
  • Appreciating appreciation.