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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Language: | English |
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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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Table of Contents:
- 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.