Literature and the Philosophy of Intention

Literature and the Philosophy of Intention
ISBN-10
1349272973
ISBN-13
9781349272976
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
255
Language
English
Published
1999-04-12
Publisher
Springer
Author
Patrick Swinden

Description

This book attempts to reinstate the importance of authorial intention by examining arguments against it from a variety of sources - American New Criticism, European Structuralism and various kinds of postmodernist theory. It enlists the aid of Kantian aesthetics and contemporary philosophy of language and action, as well as studying the play on intention in the manipulation of character and action in the work of Shakespeare and other English writers from 1600 to the present day.

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