Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature

by Angus Fletcher

Angus Fletcher is one of our finest theorists of the arts, the heir to I. A. Richards, Erich Auerbach, Northrop Frye. This, his grandest book since the groundbreaking Allegory of 1964, aims to open another field of study: how thought--the act, the experience of thinking--is represented in literature.

Recognizing that the field of formal philosophy is only one demonstration of the uses of thought, Fletcher looks for the ways...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674334132
• ISBN13: 9780674334137
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"