Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Literature
Essays
Margaret Collins Weitz author Margaret Collins Weitz editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Published:1st Feb '96
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This volume brings together a group of essays that examine the relationship between philosophy and literature - disciplines that have been opposed as often as they have been combined. While the focus is primarily on the plays of Shakespeare, there is a lengthy essay on the use of the style term maniera in art history, and a concluding survey and analysis of the relationship between philosophy and literature, from Plato to the present. The author applies the theory of meaning and logical analysis to contemporary problems in the arts and aesthetics.
«Terms not only need to be defined, but may be redefined by continuing discourse; and Morris Weitz is not only adept at such formulations, but invariably helpful in guiding us away from the all-too-frequent pitfalls of obfuscating terminology. In evoking, quoting, or restating some of the major texts from Plato to Wittgenstein, he reminds us that the critical function - if not always progressive - is ultimately cumulative in its historical scope.
Literature, as the most explicit of the arts, depending like philosophy upon words, claims his fullest attention: most centrally the drama, but also such preeminent novels as those of Tolstoy and Proust (and he has written discerningly of Eliot's poetry).» (Harry Levin, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780820416793
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 450g
182 pages
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