Lamarque, Peter orcid.org/0000-0002-2406-8750 (2007) Aesthetics and literature:a problematic relation? Philosophical Studies. pp. 27-40. ISSN 0031-8116
Abstract
The paper argues that there is a proper place for literature within aesthetics but that care must be taken in identifying just what the relation is. In characterising aesthetic pleasure associated with literature it is all too easy to fall into reductive accounts, for example, of literature as merely "fine writing". Belleslettrist or formalistic accounts of literature are rejected, as are two other kinds of reduction, to pure meaning properties and to a kind of narrative realism. The idea is developed that literature-both poetry and prose fiction-invites its own distinctive kind of aesthetic appreciation which far from being at odds with critical practice, in fact chimes well with it.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2007 Springer. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Philosophical Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | literature,aesthetics,appreciation,poetry,narrative |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Philosophy (York) |
Depositing User: | Ms Diana Hilmer |
Date Deposited: | 05 Dec 2007 15:12 |
Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2025 23:04 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-007-9090-3 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11098-007-9090-3 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:3502 |
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