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Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from
literature by focussing on a reader's close analysis of a literary
text. It examines the meaning of 'literature', outlines the most
prominent positions in the literary cognitivism debate, explores
the practice of close reading from a philosophical perspective,
provides a fresh account of what we mean by 'understanding' and in
so doing opens up a new area of research in the philosophy of
literature. This book provides a different reply to the challenge
that we can't learn anything worthwhile from reading literary
fiction. It makes the innovative case that reading literary fiction
as literature rather than as fiction stimulates five relevant
senses of understanding. The book uses examples of irony, metaphor,
play with perspective and ambiguity to illustrate this contention.
Before arguing that these five senses of understanding bridge the
gap between our understanding of a literary text and our
understanding of the world beyond that text. The book will be of
great interest for researchers, scholars and post-graduate students
in the fields of aesthetics, literary theory, literature in
education and pedagogy.
Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from
literature by focussing on a reader's close analysis of a literary
text. It examines the meaning of 'literature', outlines the most
prominent positions in the literary cognitivism debate, explores
the practice of close reading from a philosophical perspective,
provides a fresh account of what we mean by 'understanding' and in
so doing opens up a new area of research in the philosophy of
literature. This book provides a different reply to the challenge
that we can't learn anything worthwhile from reading literary
fiction. It makes the innovative case that reading literary fiction
as literature rather than as fiction stimulates five relevant
senses of understanding. The book uses examples of irony, metaphor,
play with perspective and ambiguity to illustrate this contention.
Before arguing that these five senses of understanding bridge the
gap between our understanding of a literary text and our
understanding of the world beyond that text. The book will be of
great interest for researchers, scholars and post-graduate students
in the fields of aesthetics, literary theory, literature in
education and pedagogy.
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