Literature and the Philosophy of Intention (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312219635)

This book attempts to reinstate the importance of authorial intention by examining arguments against it from a variety of sources - American New Criticism, European Structuralism and various kinds of postmodernist theory. It enlists the aid of Kantian aesthetics and contemporary philosophy of language and action, as well as studying the play on intention in the manipulation of character and action in the work of Shakespeare and other English writers from 1600 to the present day.

Author: Patrick Swinden
ISBN-10: 0312219636
ISBN-13: 9780312219635
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/11/1999
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.73w x 0.95d