Language, Truth, and Literature

Author	: Richard Gaskin
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 395
Release	: 2013-04-18
ISBN-10	: 9780199657902
ISBN-13	: 0199657904
Rating	: 4/5 (904 Downloads)

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Download or read book Language, Truth, and Literature written by Richard Gaskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism, according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par with scientific investigation.

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