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Author:   Garry L Hagberg
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2025 ed.
ISBN:  

9783031713064

ISBN 10:   3031713060
Pages:   371
Publication Date:   01 June 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"1.Introduction: Conceptions of Language, the Power of Voice, and the Determination of Meaning, Garry L. Hagberg.- Part I. Varieties of Meaning within Interpretive Criticism.- 2.  I. A. Richards and the Meaning of Criticism, Daniel Braun.- 3.  ""That Which is Its Own Evidence”: Oscar Wilde and the Platonic Dialogue, Shyam Vijay Patel.- 4. Rethinking Dramatic Irony with George Eliot's Silas Marner, Lucas Thompson.- Part II. Meaning Lost and Found.- 5. Confusion and Curiosity in Beckett’s Cryptic Novel Watt, Shoshana Benjamin.- 6.  Robert Frost’s Dharma and Ours: On Teaching “Directive"", K. Narayana Chandran.- 7. Plays, Words, and Meaning, Carola Barbero.- Part III. J. L. Austin, Stanley Cavell, and the Necessity of Community.- 8. Self-Affirmation and Uncooperative Communication in HaroldPinter's No Man's Land.- Ivan Nyusztay.- 9.  Stanley Cavell between Friends and Strangers, CJ Higgins.- 10.  The Appalling Business of Amit Chaudhuri, Paul Deb.- Part IV. Distinctive Voices, Saying, and the Intricacies of the Spoken.- 11. Finding One’s Voice: Talk, Knowledge, and Intimacy in Diderot’s D’Alembert’s Dream, Rudolphus Teeuwen.- 12.  Voice and Meaning in Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove, Garry L. Hagberg.- 13.  Poet of Joy: Nietzschean Motifs in Philip Larkin, David Gelineau.- Part V. Pictures and Powers of Literary Language.- 14. Saussure, Bergson, and the Future of Literary Theory, David Lehner.- 15. Art and Information: A Few Unsystematic Suggestions, William James Earle.- 16. Philosophy and the Force of Metaphor, Nina Belmonte."

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Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College; his most recent book is Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood (2023).

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