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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Joshua Landy (Associate Professor of French, Associate Professor of French, Stanford University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.417kg ISBN: 9780199378203ISBN 10: 0199378207 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 24 July 2014 Audience: General/trade , Adult education , General , Further / Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fiction Formative Fictions The Temporality of the Reading Experience In Spite of Everything, a Role for Meaning A Polite Aside to Historians The Value of Formative Fictions PART ONE-CLEARING THE GROUND Chapter One-Chaucer: Ambiguity and Ethics Prudence or Oneiromancy? A Parody of Didacticism Preaching to the Converted The Asymmetry of 'Imaginative Resistance' Virtue Ethics and Gossip Qualifications Positive Views PART TWO- ENCHANTMENT AND RE-ENCHANTMENT Chapter Two-Mark: Metaphor and Faith Rhetorical Theories Five Variables, Six Readings Deliberate Opacity The Vision of Mark From Him Who Has Not To Him Who Has The Syrophenician Woman The Formative Circle Metaphor and Faith Theological Ramifications A Parable about Parables Getting It Wrong By Getting It Right Coda: The Secular Kingdom Appendix: ""Le Cygne"" Chapter Three-Mallarmé: Irony and Enchantment Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin Exorcisms and Experiments Science and Wonder Lucid Illusions Stéphane Mallarmé The Spell of Poetry Setting the Scene A Replacement Faith How to Do Things with Verses A Corner of Order The Magic of Rhyme A Training in Enchantment A Sequence of States The Birth of Modernism from the Spirit of Re-Enchantment PART THREE-LOGIC AND ANTI-LOGIC Chapter Four-Plato: Fallacy and Logic A Platonic Coccyx Ascent and Dissent The Developmental Hypothesis Dubious Dialectic Pericles, Socrates and Plato The Gorgias Unravels The Uses of Oratory Was Gorgias Refuted? Spiritual Exercises: Seven Points in Conclusion Appendix: Just How Bad is the Pericles Argument? Chapter Five-Beckett: Antithesis and Tranquillity Bringing Philosophy to an End Ataraxia Antilogoi One Step Forward Finding the Self to Lose the Self An Irreducible Singleness Res Cogitans Solutions and Dissolutions Two Failures ""I confess, I give in, there is I"" Negative Anthropology The Beckettian Spiral An End to Everything? Fail Better Glimpses of the Ideal Two Caveats Coda Works Cited"ReviewsJoshua Landy has no patience for the simple-minded moral didacticism that permeates recent literary theory and philosophy. Sure-footed and light-handed, he emphasizes the 'formative' rather than the 'informative' function of literary fiction. Eloquent, erudite, witty, and just as passionate, Landy has given us a new way of looking at the importance of fiction for life--a new and marvelous 'defence of poesy.' --Alexander Nehamas, author of Only a Promise of Happiness What do we gain from reading fiction? Joshua Landy's brilliant new book advances a provocative answer with impressive verve, erudition, and insight. His discussion ranges from the New Testament to Plato, Mallarme, and Beckett, among many others. No reader will put down the book unaffected, or think of fiction in quite the same way again. --Charles L. Griswold, author of Self-Knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus In this wonderfully engaging book, Joshua Landy writes against all of those (rather depressing) theories that argue for literary texts as guides for moral improvement, or as 'messages' for the reader. Instead, Landy identifies what he calls 'formative fiction'--literature that trains the reader in the act of reading itself--a compelling and refreshing study. --Francoise Meltzer, author of Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity This terrific book pulls no punches in engaging with scholarly debates, critiquing an array of knowledge-seeking approaches to fiction. Landy's constructive work, exemplified in the verve and affection with which he treats his 'formative fictions, ' is persistently humane and practical, pressing us for openness to the vital exercise fictions offer. --Eileen John, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick If we persist in reading complicated books for something more than their plot, Landy has at least given us a series of thoughtful and persuasive reasons for doing so. --The Guardian It is rare to read a work in which the se This book may be most valuable for its call to pedagogical reform. It would be helpful for revising the aims of broad world-lit surveys or humanities courses, or, indeed, for reframing almost any literature class. ...Landy's book also offers persuasive talking points for any defense of the liberal arts mission... His book is a good manual for training Landy's own readers in how to become formative teachers. --Ashley Barnes, Comparative Literature Joshua Landy has no patience for the simple-minded moral didacticism that permeates recent literary theory and philosophy. Sure-footed and light-handed, he emphasizes the 'formative' rather than the 'informative' function of literary fiction. Eloquent, erudite, witty, and just as passionate, Landy has given us a new way of looking at the importance of fiction for life--a new and marvelous 'defence of poesy.' --Alexander Nehamas, author of Only a Promise of Happiness What do we gain from reading fiction? Joshua Landy's brilliant new book advances a provocative answer with impressive verve, erudition, and insight. His discussion ranges from the New Testament to Plato, Mallarme, and Beckett, among many others. No reader will put down the book unaffected, or think of fiction in quite the same way again. --Charles L. Griswold, author of Self-Knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus In this wonderfully engaging book, Joshua Landy writes against all of those (rather depressing) theories that argue for literary texts as guides for moral improvement, or as 'messages' for the reader. Instead, Landy identifies what he calls 'formative fiction'--literature that trains the reader in the act of reading itself--a compelling and refreshing study. --Francoise Meltzer, author of Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity This terrific book pulls no punches in engaging with scholarly debates, critiquing an array of knowledge-seeking approaches to fiction. Landy's constructive work, exemplified in the verve and affection with which he treats his 'formative fictions, ' is persistently humane and practical, pressing us for openness to the vital exercise fictions offer. --Eileen John, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick If we persist in reading complicated books for something more than their plot, Landy has at least given us a series of thoughtful and persuasive reasons for doing so. --The Guardian It is rare to read a work in which the sense comes through so fully of what it must be like to sit in the author's classroom; in this case, it is clear that Stanford students enjoy an intellectual treat, one now available to many others...Essential. --Choice Author InformationJoshua Landy is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he co-founded and co-directs the Initiative in Philosophy and Literature. He is author of Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust and coeditor, with Michael Saler, of The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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