The Value of Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Value of Literature write by Rafe McGregor. This book was released on 2016-08-22. The Value of Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Value of Literature provides an original and compelling argument for the historical and contemporary significance of literature to humanity.
The Value of Literature
The Value of Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Value of Literature write by Rafe McGregor. This book was released on 2016. The Value of Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Value of Literature provides an original and compelling argument for the historical and contemporary significance of literature to humanity.
Values of Literature
Values of Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Values of Literature write by Hanna Meretoja. This book was released on 2014-10-29. Values of Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why we read literature and why we should read literature are age-old questions that have, in recent years, gained unprecedented scope and intensity, against the backdrop of what has been perceived as a world-wide crisis in the humanities. While scholars frequently discuss different types of value separately, in this volume values of literature are approached in the plural: we argue that the ethical, aesthetic, cognitive, affective, social, historical, and existential values of literature should be explored in connection with each other. The three parts of the book explore the relationship between ethics and aesthetics; the cognitive, affective, and social values of literature; and the construction and questioning of literary values in society. Throughout the book, we discuss the different things literature can do - ranging from affirmation of social dogmas to its capacities for self-questioning and challenging of moral certainties - through the dynamic interplay of its ethical and aesthetic, cognitive and affective aspects. Literature not only reflects and draws on the values of the historical world from which it stems; it also actively addresses, challenges, and transforms those values and explores new ways to understand value. Through these complementary processes, literature engages in its own distinctively literary forms of value inquiry.
Literature and Understanding
Literature and Understanding - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literature and Understanding write by Jon Phelan. This book was released on 2020-10-08. Literature and Understanding available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader’s close analysis of a literary text. It examines the meaning of ‘literature’, outlines the most prominent positions in the literary cognitivism debate, explores the practice of close reading from a philosophical perspective, provides a fresh account of what we mean by ‘understanding’ and in so doing opens up a new area of research in the philosophy of literature. This book provides a different reply to the challenge that we can’t learn anything worthwhile from reading literary fiction. It makes the innovative case that reading literary fiction as literature rather than as fiction stimulates five relevant senses of understanding. The book uses examples of irony, metaphor, play with perspective and ambiguity to illustrate this contention. Before arguing that these five senses of understanding bridge the gap between our understanding of a literary text and our understanding of the world beyond that text. The book will be of great interest for researchers, scholars and post-graduate students in the fields of aesthetics, literary theory, literature in education and pedagogy.
Why Reading Books Still Matters
Why Reading Books Still Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Reading Books Still Matters write by Martha C. Pennington. This book was released on 2017-08-29. Why Reading Books Still Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together strands of public discourse about valuing personal achievement at the expense of social values and the impacts of global capitalism, mass media, and digital culture on the lives of children, this book challenges the potential of science and business to solve the world’s problems without a complementary emphasis on social values. The selection of literary works discussed illustrates the power of literature and human arts to instill such values and foster change. The book offers a valuable foundation for the field of literacy education by providing knowledge about the importance of language and literature that educators can use in their own teaching and advocacy work.
