Companion to the philosophy of literature

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Garry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost -- Relations between philosophy and literature -- Philosophy as literature and more than literature / Richard Shusterman -- Philosophy and literature : friends of the earth / Roger Shiner -- Philosophy and literature and rhetoric : adventures in polytopia / Walter Jost -- Philosophy and/as/of literature / Arthur C. Danto -- Emotional engagement and the experience of reading -- Emotion and the understanding of narrative / Jenefer Robinson -- Feeling fictions / Roger Scruton -- The experience of reading / Peter Kivy -- Self-defining reading : literature and the constitution of personhood / Garry L. Hagberg -- Philosophy, tragedy, and literary form -- Tragedy and philosophy / Anthony J. Cascardi -- Lago's Elenchus : Shakespeare, Othello, and the platonic inheritance / Mark Rowe -- Catharsis / Jonathan Lear -- Passion, counter-passion, catharsis : Beckett and Flaubert on feeling nothing / Joshua Landy -- Literature and the moral life -- Perceptive equilibrium : literary theory and ethical theory / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Henry James, moral philosophers, moralism / Cora Diamond -- Literature and the idea of morality / Eileen John -- Styles of selfishness / Daniel Brudney -- Narrative and the question of literary truth -- Narrative, imitation, and point of view / Gregory Currie -- How and what we can learn from fiction / Mitchell Green -- Literature and truth / Peter Lamarque --Truth in poetry : particulars and universals / Richard Eldridge -- Intention and biography in criticism -- Authorial intention and the varieties of intentionalism / Paisley Livingston -- Art as techne or the intentional fallacy and the unfinished project of formalism / Henry Staten -- Biography in literary criticism / Stein Haugom Olsen -- Getting inside Heisenberg's head / Ray Monk -- On literary language -- Wittgenstein and literary language / Jon Cook and Rupert Read -- Exemplification and expression / Charles Altieri -- At play in the fields of metaphor / Ted Cohen -- Macbeth appalled / Stanley Cavell.