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This volume brings together a group of essays on 27 English or American writers contributing to the history of English and American literature, and offers a concise survey of the question of literary understanding. It approaches this question in a specific and systematic way, adopting the framework of structuralist literary criticism. The book proposes a preliminary to the understanding of literature in general, a sort of “philosophy of literature”, as the problems involved in critical reading of course reflect the powerful characteristics of literary language.

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Olivier Abiteboul is a Professor of Philosophy in Nice, France, and an Associate Researcher at the research centre “Comparative Literature and Poetics” (EA 3931) of the University of Paris Nanterre. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I), France, and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Théâtres du Monde. He is the author of about 20 books, including Diagonals: Essay on Theater and Philosophy (1997), The Tamed Paradox (1998), The Rhetoric of Philosophers: Essay on Epistolary Relations (2002), A Brief History of Philosophy through Texts (2007) and A Little Philosophy of Literature (2012).

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