CONTENTS


HISTORY

ANCIENT (CLASSICAL):
   Epicureanism
   Neoplatonism
   Pre-Socratics
   Pyrrhonian Skepticism
   Sophists
   Stoicism
      Literature & Literary Theory

MEDIEVAL (c.350-c.1400):
   Literature & Literary Theory


EARLY MODERN:
   Renaissance (c.1400-c.1600):
      Literature & Literary Theory

   17th & 18th Century (c.1600-c.1785):
      Literature & Literary Theory

19th CENTURY (c.1785-c.1890):
   Romanticisms & Neo-Romanticisms:
      German & Anglo-American Idealism
      Existentialism
         Literature & Literary Theory
   'Victorian' Positivism:
         Literature & Literary Theory

20th CENTURY:
   Analytic Philosophy:
      Logical Atomism
      Logical Positivism
      Ordinary Language
      Recent

         Aesthetics
   Anglo-American Modernisms:
      'High' Modernism
      Liberal Humanism
      Myth Criticism
      Neo-Aristotelianism
      New Criticism
   Continental Philosophy:
      Idealism:
            Literary Theory

      Marxism:
         Frankfurt School
            Literary Theory
      Phenomenology:
         Existentialism
         Hermeneutics
            Literary Theory

      Psychoanalysis:
         Literary Theory

            Object-Relations Theory
            Jungian Analytical Psychology:
               Literary Theory
      (Post-)Structuralisms:
         Deconstruction:
            Literary Theory

         Deleuzean Theory:
            Literary Theory

         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle):
            Literary Theory

         Foucauldian Theory:
            Literary Theory

         Semiotics / Structuralism:
            Literary Theory:
               Russian Formalism

         Structuralist Marxism:
            Literary Theory

         Structuralist Psychoanalysis:
            Literary Theory

   Pragmatism:
      Literary Theory


REGIONS

AFRICA AND AFRICAN DIASPORA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

ASIA:
      Central Asia
      East Asia (Chinese):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      South Asia (Indian):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      South-East Asia


AUSTRALASIA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

CANADA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

CARIBBEAN:
   Literature & Literary Theory

EUROPE
:
      Central Europe
      Eastern Europe:
         Russia:
            Literature & Literary Theory

      Northern Europe (Scandinavia):
         Literature & Literary Theory

      Southern Europe:
         Greece
            Literature & Literary Theory

         Italy
            Literature & Literary Theory

         Spain
            Literature & Literary Theory

      Western Europe:
         Eire
            Literature & Literary Theory
         France
            Literature & Literary Theory
         Germany
            Literature & Literary Theory
         UK:
            Scotland
            Wales
               Literature & Literary Theory

LATIN AMERICA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

MIDDLE EAST:
   Arabic/Islamic Thought:
      Literature & Literary Theory
   Israeli/Jewish Thought:
      Literature & Literary Theory

USA
:
   Literature & Literary Theory
   African American:
      Literature & Literary Theory
   Native American:
      Literature & Literary Theory


TOPICS

 

ARTS:
   Architecture
   Arts (Performing)
   Arts (Visual and Plastic)
   Film
   Literature:
      Audience
      Author
      Literary Form & Genre:
         Drama
         Poetry
         Prose
      Literary Historicism
      Lit. History, Intertextuality, Canonicity
      Metaliterature
      Literary Representation (Realism)

   Music
 

BEING


COMMUNICATION:
   Interpretation
   Language
        Linguistic Criticism/Literary Stylistics

   Reasoning: Logic, Rhetoric, Argument
 

EDUCATION

 

GEOGRAPHY & THE ENVIRONMENT:
   Ecocriticism

 

HUMAN BEING:
   Body:

      Gender (Feminist Theory)
      Race (Critical Race Theory)

      Sexuality (Queer Theory):

         Queer Critical Theory

   Mind:
     
Cognitive & Psychological Criticism

   Self:
      Writing the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY
 

MORALITY:

   Ethical Criticism
 

RELIGION:
   Religion and Literature


NATURAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY:
   Biology & Medical Sciences:

      Darwinist (Evolutionary) Criticism
   Chemistry

   Information Technology
   Mathematics
   
Physics

SOCIAL FORMATION
:

   Culture
   Economics
  
History
   Law

   Politics
   Society
 

SPORTS
 


GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS
CAREERS
CONFERENCES
JOURNALS
PHOTOS
PRIMARY SOURCES
SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING
WWW GATEWAYS

 


ALTERNATIVE STANDPOINTS

Feminist Theory:
   Aesthetics/ Critical Theory

Post-colonial Theory:
   Aesthetics / Critical Theory
 

 

PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE

I use the term Philosophy of Literature to refer to the use of logical and scientific methods to explain the nature of literature, it constituent elements, its effect, etc. 

Philosophy and / as Literature refers to the study of the (often unacknowledged) literary dimensions of philosophy.

Philosophy in Literature refers to the study of philosophical questions that arise from time to time in literary works.


SUB-PAGES

Philosophers / Theorists:

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Related Pages:


ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2008:

  • Philosophy of Literature, Ratio Conference 2008, University of Reading, April 12
     

2007:

  • Poets Reading Philosophy / Philosophers Reading Poetry, Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts , University of Warwick, October 26-28

2006:

  • 2006 Conference, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC), Hotel Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco, California, October 13-15
  • In Search of (Non)Sense: Literary Semantics and the Related Fields and Disciplines, International Association of Literary Semantics, Institute of English Philology, Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland, October 12-14
  • Literature, the Literary and the Literal, Department of Philosophy, University of York, June 8
  • Critical Aesthetics, Cornell University, April 6-8

2005:

  • Poetry and Belief, Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick, February 25

  • Character and Imagination, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, January 29

2004:

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2003:

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2002:

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2001:

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2000:

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Annual:

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COURSES

JOURNALS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book Series:

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Bolling, Doug, ed.  Philosophy and Literature New York: Haven, 1987.
    • Davies, David, and Carl Matheson, eds.  Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Literature.  Peterborough, ONT: Broadview, 2005.
    • Fox, Richard, ed.  Readings in Philosophy and Literature.  Kendall-Hunt, 1971.
    • John, Eileen, and Dominic McIver Lopes, eds.  The Philosophy of Literature: Classic and Contemporary Readings.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
    • Thompson, Peter, ed.  Philosophy and Literature: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Commitment.  Harcourt College, 1969.  Rpt. 2001.
  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Ellis, John.  The Theory of Criticism: a Logical Analysis.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1977.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Griffiths, A. Phillips, ed.  Philosophy and Literature.  Cambridge: CUP, 1984.
    • Rudrum, David, ed.  Literature and Philosophy: a Guide to Contemporary Debates.  London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006.
    • Literary Theory:
  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Baldwin, Robert C., and James A. S. McPeek.  An Introduction to Philosophy through Literature.  New York: Ronald, 1950.
    • Davies, David.  The Philosophy of Literature.  Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2004.
    • Hahn, Stephen.  On Philosophy in Literature.  Belmont: Wadsworth, 2004.
    • Johnson, Charles W.  Philosophy in Literature.  Emtext, 1992.
    • Klieman, Lowell, and Stephen Lewis.  Philosophy: an Introduction through Literature.  New York: Paragon, 1992.
    • Kolenda, Konstantin.  Philosophy in literature: Metaphysical Darkness and Ethical Light.  New York: Barnes and Noble, 1982.
    • Kuhns, Richard Francis.  Structures of Experience: Essays on the Affinity between Philosophy and Literature.  New York: Basic, 1970.
    • Martin, Graham Dunstan.  Language, Truth, and Poetry: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Literature.  New York: Columbia UP, 1980.
    • Muller, Gustav Emil.  Philosophy of Literature.  Ayer, 1976.
    • Murdoch, Iris.  Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1997.

    • New, Christopher.  Philosophy of Literature: an Introduction.  London: Routledge, 1999.
    • Porter, Burton F.  Philosophy Through Fiction and Film.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2003.
    • Rickman, H. P.  Philosophy in Literature.  Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1996.
    • Ross, Julian L.  Philosophy in Literature.  Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1949.

    • Rowe, M. M.  Philosophy and Literature: a Book of Essays.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

    • Skilleas, Ole Martin.  Philosophy and Literature: an Introduction.  New York: Columbia UP, 2001.

    • Miller, Eugene M., and Edmund J. Thomas, eds.  Writers and Philosophers: a Sourcebook of Philosophical Influences on Literature.  New York: Greenwood, 1990.
    • Tschumi, Raymond.  A Philosophy of Literature.  Dufour, 1968.
    • Weitz, Morris.  Philosophy in Literature: Shakespeare, Voltaire, Tolstoy, Proust.  Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1963.

On-Line:

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Europe:

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