Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience

by Charles Altieri

Book Overview

Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri believes they ultimately fall short because too often they fail to account for the values that engage literary texts in the social world. In Reckoning with the Imagination, Altieri argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801456703
• ISBN13: 9780801456701
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher