Thinking with Literature: Towards a Cognitive Criticism

by Terence Cave

Book Overview

To speak of 'thinking with literature' is to make the assumption that literature (in the broadest sense) is neither a side-show nor a side-issue in human cultures: it belongs to the spectrum of imaginative modes that includes both philosophical and scientific thought. Whether one regards it as a practice or as an archive, literature is highly pervasive, robust, enduring, and pregnant with values. Thinking with Literature argues that what it affords...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198824645
• ISBN13: 9780198824640
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"