How to do things with fictions:
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Oxford Univ. Press
2014
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliography and index |
| Physical Description: | XV, 250 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780199378203 |
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| adam_text | Witty and approachable, How to Do Things with Fictions challenges the widespread
assumption that literary texts must be informative or morally improving in order to be
of any real benefit. Delivering plenty of surprises along the way—that moral readings
of literature can be positively dangerous; that the parables were deliberately
misu
metaphor is
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connected to religious taith; that we can sustain
our beliefs even when we suspect them to be illusions—Joshua
Landy
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richer experience, and greater peace of mind may well be the imaginative
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
xi
Note
to the Paperback Edition
xv
Introduction
з
THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A FICTION
4
FORMATIVE FICTIONS
8
THE TEMPORALITY OF THE READING EXPERIENCE
11
IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING, A ROLE FOR MEANING
14
A POLITE WORD TO HISTORIANS
16
THE VALUE OF FORMATIVE FICTIONS
17
PART ONE—CLEARING THE GROUND
1.
Chaucer: Ambiguity and Ethics
23
PRUDENCE OR ONEIROMANCY?
23
A PARODY OF DIDACTICISM
25
PREACHING TO THE CONVERTED
27
THE ASYMMETRY OF IMAGINATIVE RESISTANCE
29
VIRTUE ETHICS AND GOSSIP
33
QUALIFICATIONS
34
A GENUINE BENEFIT
37
PART TWO—ENCHANTMENT AND RE-ENCHANTMENT
2.
Mark: Metaphor and Faith
43
THE MYTH OF SIMPLICITY
43
viii Contents
FIVE VARIABLES, SIX READINGS
45
DELIBERATE OPACITY
47
THE VISION OF MARK
49
FROM HIM WHO HAS NOT
52
TO HIM WHO HAS
53
THE SYROPHOENICIAN WOMAN
55
THE FORMATIVE CIRCLE
57
METAPHOR AND FAITH
59
THEOLOGICAL RAMIFICATIONS 6O
A PARABLE ABOUT PARABLES
61
GETTING IT WRONG BY GETTING IT RIGHT
62
CODA: THE SECULAR KINGDOM
63
APPENDIX: CHARLES BAUDELAIRE,
LE CYGNE
65
3.
Mallarmé:
Irony andL Enchantment
69
Part
1:
Jean-Eugene
Robert-Hovidin 7O
EXORCISMS AND EXPERIMENTS 7O
SCIENCE AND WONDER
72
LUCID ILLUSIONS
75
Part
2:
Stéphane Mallarmé
77
THE SPELL OF POETRY
77
SETTING THE SCENE
79
A REPLACEMENT FAITH
81
HOW TO DO THINGS WITH VERSES
82
A CORNER OF ORDER
83
THE MAGIC OF RHYME
85
A TRAINING IN ENCHANTMENT
86
A SEQUENCE OF STATES
87
POSTSCRIPT: THE BIRTH OF MODERNISM FROM THE SPIRIT
OF RE-ENCHANTMENT
89
PART THREE—LOGIC AND ANTI-LOGIC
4.
Plato: Fallacy and. Logic
95
A PLATONIC COCCYX
96
ASCENT AND DISSENT
97
THE DEVELOPMENTAL HYPOTHESIS
99
Contents
DUBIOUS DIALECTIC
101
PERICLES, SOCRATES, AND PLATO
105
THE GORGIAS UNRAVELS
108
THE USES OF ORATORY 111
WAS GORGIAS REFUTED?
114
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
115
APPENDIX: JUST HOW BAD IS THE PERICLES ARGUMENT?
120
5.
Beckett: Antithesis and Tranquility
124
Part
1:
Bringing Philosophy to an End
125
ATARAXIA
125
ANTILOGOI
126
ONE STEP FORWARD
128
Part
2:
Finding the Self to Lose the Self
130
AN IRREDUCIBLE SINGLENESS
130
RES COGITANS
131
SOLUTIONS AND DISSOLUTIONS
133
TWO FAILURES
135
I CONFESS, I GIVE IN, THERE IS I
136
NEGATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY
138
THE BECKETTIAN SPIRAL
139
AN END TO EVERYTHING?
140
Part
3:
Fail Better
142
GLIMPSES OF THE IDEAL
142
TWO CAVEATS
144
CODA
145
Notes
147
Works Cited
225
Index
245
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