Literature and philosophy : a guide to contemporary debates /

• Rudrum, David.

• Literature -- Philosophy

• Palgrave Macmillan,

• 1403947732 (hbk)

• Includes bibliographies and index.
• Acknowledgement - Notes on Contributors - INTRODUCTION - Literature and Philosophy: The Contemporary Interface; D.Rudrum - PART I: ENCOUNTERS WITH LITERATURE IN FRENCH PHILOSOPHY - Introduction; D.Rudrum - First Lessons: Giles Deleuze and The Concept of Literature; A.Larson - 'The Absence of Origin': Beckett and Contemporary French Philosophy; D.Tubridy - PART II: ENCOUNTERS WITH LITERATURE IN ANGLO-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY - Introduction; D.Rudrum - The Pattern that Literature Makes: Davidson, Pragmatism, and the Reconstruction of the Literary; B.Vescio - Autobiographical Memory: Wittgenstein, Davidson, and the 'Descent into Ourselves'; G.L.Hagberg - What Can My Nonsense Tell Me About You; B.Bourbon - PART III: ENCOUNTERS WITH LITERATURE IN GERMAN PHILOSOPHY - Introduction; D.Rudrum - A Risky Business: Internal Time and Objective Time in Husserl and Woolf; R.Strehle - The Poetics of Thinking; J.A.Gosetti-Ferencei - Construction without Theory: Oblique Reflections on Walter Benjamin's Goethe; R.J.Lane - PART IV: LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY: THE QUESTION OF ETHICS - Introduction; D.Rudrum - Liminal Agencies: Literature as Moral Philosophy; M.C.Rawlinson - Is Forgiveness Ever Possible At All?; R.Read - PART V: READING PHILOSOPHY AS LITERATURE - Introduction; D.Rudrum - Who is Speaking? - Brodsky, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Genre, M.Eskin - Literary Potential: The Release of Criticism; A.Benjamin - Gibberophobia: Philosophy, Fear and the Plain Style; J.Ree - Philosophy's Metaphors: Dennett, Midgely and Derrida; R.Eaglestone - Hearing Voices: A Dialogical Reading of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations; D.Rudrum - PART VI: CONCLUSION: APPROACHING THE END - Introduction; D.Rudrum - No Matter: Aesthetic Theory and the Self-Annihilating Artwork; J.Cohen - Form, Reflection, Disclosure: Literary Aesthetics and Contemporary Criticism; S.Malpas - Index.

• Colonial and postcolonial literature migrant metaphors
• introduction to Nietzsche as political thinker the perfect nihilist
• Beginning postcolonialism
• expansion of England race ethnicity and cultural history
• Robinson Crusoe an authoritative text contexts criticism
• Black skin white masks
• Belief beyond boundaries Wicca celtic spirituality and the new age
• empire writes back theory and practice in post colonial literatures
• Colonial discourse postcolonial theory
• Norton anthology of English literature
• The Norton anthology of English literature
• Practical criticism
• Tudor revolution in government administrative changes in the reign of Henry VIII
• post colonial studies reader
• Modernist fiction
• Engendering fictions the English novel in the early twentieth century
• Britain in the Depression society and politics 1929 1939
• Reign of Elizabeth I
• improper feminine the womens sensation novel and the new woman writing
• Gender and power in Britain 1640 1990
• Britains decline problems and perspectives
• transformation of Medieval England 1370 1529
• Modernismpostmodernism
• Women in Britain since 1900
• Criminological perspectives essential readings