A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature [Hardcover]

• Helpfully groups essays into the field's main sub-categories, among them ‘Relations Between Philosophy and Literature’, ‘Emotional Engagement and the Experience of Reading’, ‘Literature and the Moral Life’, and ‘Literary Language’
• Offers a combination of analytical precision and literary richness
• Represents an unparalleled work of reference for students and specialists alike, ideal for course use

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1
Garry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost

Part I Relations between Philosophy and Literature 5

1 Philosophy as Literature and More than Literature 7
Richard Shusterman

2 Philosophy and Literature: Friends of the Earth? 22
Roger A. Shiner

3 Philosophy and Literature – and Rhetoric: Adventures in Polytopia 38
Walter Jost

4 Philosophy and/as/of Literature 52
Arthur C. Danto

Part II Emotional Engagement and the Experience of Reading 69

5 Emotion and the Understanding of Narrative 71
Jenefer Robinson

6 Feeling Fictions 93
Roger Scruton

7 The Experience of Reading 106
Peter Kivy

8 Self-Defining Reading: Literature and the Constitution olC¬