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Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts

by Jon Phelan

  • Hardback
  • 182 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

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For literature scholars and aesthetic researchers

Shows how close reading stimulates new perspectives

Grow your ability to find truth within classic works

This insightful study examines how the deep analysis of literary texts can enhance our understanding of the world.

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This book investigates potential cognitive gain from the close analysis of literary texts. Providing a challenge to the anti-cognitivist position, it argues that cognitive gain is relevant to our aesthetic appreciation of literature. The author locates cognitive gain in the verstehen tradition and identifies five relevant senses of understanding to make the innovative case that reading literary fiction as literature stimulates the relevant senses of understanding.
Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts and Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts
Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary TextsLiterature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts

  • Title

    Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts

  • Author

    Jon Phelan

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    October 2020

  • Page Count

    182

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780367337056

  • ISBN-10

    0367337053

  • Eden Code

    5606673