Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Literary Humanism

by Richard Gaskin

According to the literary humanist, works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of their production and which is the same for all readers, then and thereafter, not subject to the vagaries of individual readers' responses. Such works refer to the real world and make statements about that world which are of cognitive as well as aesthetic value; the two kinds of value are indeed intimately connected. Richard Gaskin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198776896
• ISBN13: 9780198776895
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"