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Walter Jost is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman (1989) and Rhetorical Investigations (2004), and has edited or co-edited six previous books, including (with Wendy Olmsted) A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism (Blackwell, 2004).
Notes on Contributors | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | |
Relations between Philosophy and Literature | |
Philosophy as Literature and More than Literature | |
Philosophy and Literature: Friends of the Earth? | |
Philosophy and Literature and Rhetoric: Adventures in Polytopia | |
Philosophy and/as/of Literature | |
Emotional Engagement and the Experience of Reading: | |
Emotion and the Understanding of Narrative | |
Feeling Fictions | |
The Experience of Reading | |
Self-Defining Reading: Literature and the Constitution of Personhood | |
Philosophy, Tragedy, and Literary Form | |
Tragedy and Philosophy | |
Iagos Elenchus: Shakespeare, Othello, and the Platonic Inheritance | |
Catharsis | |
Passion, Counter-Passion, Catharsis: Flaubert (and Beckett) on Feeling Nothing | |
Literature and the Moral Life: | |
Perceptive Equilibrium: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory | |
Henry James, Moral Philosophers, Moralism | |
Literature and the Idea of Morality | |
Styles of Self-Absorption | |
Narrative and the Question of Literary Truth | |
Narration, Imitation, and Point of View | |
How and What We Can Learn From Fiction | |
Literature and Truth | |
Truth in Poetry: Particulars and Universals | |
Intention and Biography in Criticism | |
Authorial Intention and the Varieties of Intentionalism | |
Art as Techne, or, the Intentional Fallacy and the Unfinished Project of Formalism | |
Biography in Literary Criticism | |
Getting Inside Heisenbergs Head | |
On Literary Language | |
Wittgenstein and Literary Language | |
Exemplification and Expression | |
At Play in the Fields of Metaphor | |
Macbeth Appalled | |
Index | |
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