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affective reading
Andy Mousley
Angelic Doctor
Author_Andy Mousley
Book's Overarching Topic
Book’s Overarching Topic
Bruce Chatwin
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Characterological Description
Chopin
close textual analysis
Criticism
Dead Man
Edna Pontellier
Emotions
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existential criticism
Gads Hill Robbery
Green Eyed Monster
Henry IV
Humanisation
Kate Chopin
La Jalousie
literary hermeneutics
Literature and the Human
Love Plot
Love Poem
Midsummer Night's Dream
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Militant Islamic Fundamentalism
narrative epistemology
New Literary Humanism
Playback
Poetic Universals
Practice
Reluctant Fundamentalist
Sensuous Particulars
Single Minded Attention
Theory
Tis Pity
universals in literature
Vital Human Significance
White Noise
why literature matters for humanity
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415614672
- Weight: 249g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 16 May 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Why does literature matter? What is its human value? Historical approaches to literature have for several decades prevailed over the idea that literary works can deepen our understanding of fundamental questions of existence. This book re-affirms literature's existential value by developing a new critical vocabulary for thinking about literature's human meaningfulness. It puts this vocabulary into practice through close reading of a wide range of texts, from The Second Wakefield Shepherds’ Play to Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Individual chapters discuss:
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- Literature’s engagement of the emotions
- Literature’s humanisation of history
- Literature’s treatment of universals and particulars
- The depth of reflection provoked by literary works
- Literature as a special kind of seeing and framing
The question at the heart of the volume, of why literature matters, makes this book relevant to all students and professors of literature.
Andy Mousley is a Reader at De Montfort University. He is the author of Re-Humanising Shakespeare (2007), co-author of Critical Humanisms (2003), and editor of Towards a New Literary Humanism (2011). He has published widely on humanism and posthumanism, including articles in Textual Practice and Biography.
