Literature, like the visual arts, poses its own philosophical problems. While literary theorists have discussed the nature of literature intensively, analytic philosophers have usually dealt with literary problems either within the general framework of aesthetics or else in a way that is accessible only to a philosophical audience. The present book is unique in that it introduces the philosophy of literature from an analytic perspective accessible to both students of literature and students of philosophy. Specifically, the book addresses: the definition of literature, the distinction between oral and written literature and the identity of literary works the nature of fiction and our emotional involvement with fictional characters the concept of imagination and its role in the apprehension of literary works theories of metaphor and postmodernist theory on the significance of the authors' intentions to the interpretationof their work an examination of the relevance of thruth and morality to literary appreciation Lucid and well organised and free from jargon, hilosophy of Literature: An Introduction offers fresh approaches to traditional problems and raises new issues in the philosophy of literature.

Philosophy of Literature: An Introduction

Literature & Fiction

New, Christopher

History & Criticism

Routledge

Lucid,,well-organised and free of jargon, Philosophy of Literature: An Introduction offers fresh approaches to traditional issues and raises new questions about the nature of philosop- hical problems which literature gives rise to.

Goodbye Chairman Mao

Popular Library

The Chinese Box

The fingers of pianists are broken for playing bourgeois music, teachers are humiliated and worse-the Cultural Revolution is in full fury on the mainland, and neighbouring Hong Kong is rife with rumors and riots.  University lecturer Dimitri Johnston has lived all his life in Hong Kong and regards it as his home, while his English wife cannot settle there. Meeting a young Chinese dancer, a refugee from the mainland, he becomes infatuated with her. But when they witness a police action against marauding demonstrators, they are both forced to confront choices that may devastate their lives.

The Chinese box

W.H.Allen

Shanghai

Set against the tumultuous background of China in the early twentieth century, this novel traces the fortunes of John Denton, a poor Englishman who arrives in Shanghai in 1903 and carves out a career as a powerful trader

Bantam]

Set against the tumultuous background of China in the early twentieth century, this novel traces the fortunes of John Denton, a poor Englishman who arrives in Shanghai in 1903 and carves out a career as a powerful trader

Shanghai: A Novel

British & Irish

Summit Books

Shanghai : A Novel

Macdonald Futura Publishers

The Kaminsky Cure is a poignant yet comedic novel of a half Jewish/half Christian family caught up in the machinery of Hitler’s final solution. The matriarch, Gabi, was born Jewish but converted to Christianity in her teens. The patriarch, Willibald, is a Lutheran minister who, on one hand is an admirer of Hitler, but on the other hand, the conflicted father of children who are half-Jewish. Mindful and resentful of her husband’s ambivalence, Gabi is determined to make sure her children are educated, devising schemes to keep them in school even after learning that any child less than 100% Aryan will eventually be kept from completing education. She even hires tutors who are willing to teach half-Jewish children and in this way comes to hire Fraulein Kaminsky who shows Gabi how to cure her frustration and rage: to keep her mouth filled with water until the urge to scream or rant has passed.
This beautifully rendered novel of WWII, “seen through a child’s eye, makes delusion and hypocrisy shockingly stark.” (The Guardian)

The Kaminsky Cure

Delphinium Books

Chinese Spring

Literary

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