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Essays in Literary Aesthetics

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Philosophy Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-2460-4

ISBN: 978-981-13-2459-8

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Oct 11, 2018

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Providing the Context

Ghosh, Ranjan K.

Pages: 1 –12

[The chapter begins with a brief overview of the contemporary trends in analytic approach to deal with philosophical questions concerning art, in general, and literature, in particular. Such concern with the analyses and clarification of concepts has played an important role though it has been...
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The Literary Text: Meaning and Intention

Ghosh, Ranjan K.

Pages: 13 –22

[It deals with the basic question relating to the role of intention in understanding the meaning of a literary text. The term “intention” in the context of the literary text is problematic as it has been understood in various senses such as that of the historical author or poet, that which is...
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Emotions in Art

Ghosh, Ranjan K.

Pages: 23 –34

[The chapter mainly deals with the questions about the ontological status of emotions that we experience for a character or incident, say, a novel, movie, etc. Is the experience we have of, say, anger, pity, sympathy, etc., in relation to the characters in a novel, poem, play, etc. real and...
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Literature and Life

Ghosh, Ranjan K.

Pages: 35 –47

[The chapter deals with the relation between literature and life. A literary work is to be viewed in its totality and for the quality of experience it evokes. Literature borrows elements from life, but it creates an autonomous domain that is invested with an uncommon import. For that matter, a...
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Metaphor and Meaning

Ghosh, Ranjan K.

Pages: 49 –62

[The chapter deals with the nature and meaning of metaphor. Often a metaphor in language is “created” by breaking the rules of grammar and syntax. Thus the metaphorical meaning would be very different from the sentence meaning. It is interesting to note how metaphors are created in language and...
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The Literary Narrative and Moral Values

Ghosh, Ranjan K.

Pages: 63 –82

[The chapter deals with narrative identity as it is created both in life and in literary work. It is very much the case that our personal identities in life are created by means of narrative wherein one puts together selectively favourable traits of character in an imaginative construal....

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