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Thinking with Literature
Terence Cave
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Description for Thinking with Literature
Hardcover. Thinking with Literature offers a succinct introduction to a cognitive literary criticsm, broad in scope but focusing on a particular cluster of approaches, it aims to induce a change of perspective in the reader. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; GTR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 129. .
To speak of 'thinking with literature' is to make the assumption that literature (in the broadest sense) is neither a side-show nor a side-issue in human cultures: it belongs to the spectrum of imaginative modes that includes both philosophical and scientific thought. Whether one regards it as a practice or as an archive, literature is highly pervasive, robust, enduring, and pregnant with values. Thinking with Literature argues that what it affords above all is a way of thinking, whether for writer, reader, or critic. Literature constitutes one of the prime instruments of cultural improvisation; it is the embodiment ... Read more
To speak of 'thinking with literature' is to make the assumption that literature (in the broadest sense) is neither a side-show nor a side-issue in human cultures: it belongs to the spectrum of imaginative modes that includes both philosophical and scientific thought. Whether one regards it as a practice or as an archive, literature is highly pervasive, robust, enduring, and pregnant with values. Thinking with Literature argues that what it affords above all is a way of thinking, whether for writer, reader, or critic. Literature constitutes one of the prime instruments of cultural improvisation; it is the embodiment ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198749417
SKU
V9780198749417
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99-15
About Terence Cave
Terence Cave CBE FBA is a specialist in early modern French literature, thought, and culture. His major publications in this area include The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance(1979), Pre-histoires: textes troubles au seuil de la modernite (1999), Pre-histoires II: langues etrangeres et troubles economiques au XVIe siecle (2001), and How to Read Montaigne (2007). His ... Read more
Reviews for Thinking with Literature
the book offers many valuable insights about human cognition and embodiment
British Society of Literature and Science
Terence Cave, in Thinking with Literature ... goes inside our minds to map out a new cognitive approach to literary studies .
Hal Jensen, Summer Books selection 2016, Times Literary Supplement
British Society of Literature and Science
Terence Cave, in Thinking with Literature ... goes inside our minds to map out a new cognitive approach to literary studies .
Hal Jensen, Summer Books selection 2016, Times Literary Supplement