1st Edition
Attending to the Literary The Distinctiveness of Literature
By Alan Singer
Copyright 2024
144 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
144 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
144 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature is a foray into current debates about the nature of the literary. What is literary? Is literarity a thing? Are there still aesthetic standards of taste? Is the category of literary aesthetics an obstacle to understanding the uses of literature? What does it mean to count the reading of literature as an experience in its own right?... Read more
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Literature as Staging for Human Capacities: Snarling the Allegory
- The Mirror of Attention: Affording Literarity
- Sense and Sentences: Writing the Prose of the World
- Reading for Experience: The Compositional Ethos
- The Potentiality of the Reader
- Literarity and Possibility
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Alan Singer is Professor Emeritus of English at Temple University. He has written extensively in the fields of literary theory, aesthetics, and the visual arts. His publications include Posing Sex: Towards a Perceptual Ethics (2018) and The Self-Deceiving Muse: Notice and Knowledge in the Work of Art (2010).
