Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature New Interdisciplin
This book is about the interaction between literary studies and the philosophy of literature. It features essays from internationally renowned and emerging philosophers and literary scholars, challenging readers to join them in taking seriously the n
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Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature
Andrea Selleri • Philip Gaydon Editors
Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature New Interdisciplinary Directions
Editors Andrea Selleri Department of English and Comparative Literature University of Warwick Coventry, UK
Philip Gaydon Department of Philosophy University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom
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Acknowledgements
This book is a distant offshoot of the conference 21st-Century Theories of Literature: Essence, Fiction and Value, which we organised at the University of Warwick in March 2014. Our thanks go to Eileen John for her work with us on that project, as well as to all participants. Financial support for the conference was provided by the British Society of Aesthetics, the American Society for Aesthetics, the Analysis Trust, and the University of Warwick’s Humanities Research Centre, International Office, Philosophy Department and Institute for Advanced Studies. We published some of our considerations stemming from the event as ‘21st-Century Theories of Literature: A Critical Reflection on an Interdisciplinary Event’ (2014) in Exchanges: The Warwick Research Journal, 2:1, 174–183 (web). We would like to thank Karen Simecek and an anonymous reviewer for helping shape those thoughts. We then jointly presented some of
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