The value(s) of literature / James S. Hans.
This book addressed the ethical aspects of literature by discussing three major American poets: Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, and A.R. Ammons. It develops a philosophical framework by which an ethics of literature can be constructed, and differentiates this view from a purely political criticism on...
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[1990]
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| Series: | SUNY series in aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
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| 264 | 1 | |a Albany : |b State University of New York Press, |c [1990] | |
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| 300 | |a xi, 166 pages ; |c 24 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-166). | ||
| 505 | 2 | |a Introduction: The value(s) of literature -- Whitman's affirmation of the world -- Stevens' chorale to the adventurer in humanity -- Ammons and the one: many mechanism -- Conclusion: The aesthetic of worldly hopes. | |
| 520 | |a This book addressed the ethical aspects of literature by discussing three major American poets: Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, and A.R. Ammons. It develops a philosophical framework by which an ethics of literature can be constructed, and differentiates this view from a purely political criticism on the one hand and a purely "disinterested" criticism on the other. Beginning with Nietzsche's assumption that the world itself is an aesthetic place. Hans shows how an ethic is always inevitably implicit in the aesthetic through which a writer constructs his work. At the same time, he argues that this ethic never tells us how to live our lives; it only presents us with a series of constructs through which we can begin to understand the nature of valuing in the everyday world. The book also examines some of the reasons why academics have resisted the ethical aspects of literature, confronting the two major forces in literary criticism today; political writing (chiefly feminist) and post-structuralist (chiefly desconstructionist) writing. | ||
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