Inconvenient Fictions: Literature and the Limits of Theory

by Bernard Harrison and Professor Bernard Harrison

This book engages some of the important issues in literary theory and literary study, investigating the structuralist and post-structuralist denial that cognitive gains can be made from the reading of fiction and poetry, and seeking to reverse this estimate of the relative epistemic credentials of literature and theory. Its thesis is that the boundaries between literary texts and natural reality are permeable in subtler ways than are allowed for in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300050577
• ISBN13: 9780300050578
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"