Introduction / Garry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost
Relations between philosophy and literature
Philosophy as literature and more than literature / Richard Shusterman
Philosophy and literature : friends of the earth / Roger Shiner
Philosophy and literature and rhetoric : adventures in polytopia / Walter Jost
Philosophy and/as/of literature / Arthur C. Danto
Emotional engagement and the experience of reading
Emotion and the understanding of narrative / Jenefer Robinson
Feeling fictions / Roger Scruton
The experience of reading / Peter Kivy
Self-defining reading : literature and the constitution of personhood / Garry L. Hagberg
Philosophy, tragedy, and literary form
Tragedy and philosophy / Anthony J. Cascardi
Lago's Elenchus : Shakespeare, Othello, and the platonic inheritance / Mark Rowe
Catharsis / Jonathan Lear
Passion, counter-passion, catharsis : Beckett and Flaubert on feeling nothing / Joshua Landy
Literature and the moral life
Perceptive equilibrium : literary theory and ethical theory / Martha C. Nussbaum
Henry James, moral philosophers, moralism / Cora Diamond
Literature and the idea of morality / Eileen John
Styles of selfishness / Daniel Brudney
Narrative and the question of literary truth
Narrative, imitation, and point of view / Gregory Currie
How and what we can learn from fiction / Mitchell Green
Literature and truth / Peter Lamarque
Truth in poetry : particulars and universals / Richard Eldridge
Intention and biography in criticism
Authorial intention and the varieties of intentionalism / Paisley Livingston
Art as techne or the intentional fallacy and the unfinished project of formalism / Henry Staten
Biography in literary criticism / Stein Haugom Olsen
Getting inside Heisenberg's head / Ray Monk
On literary language
Wittgenstein and literary language / Jon Cook and Rupert Read
Exemplification and expression / Charles Altieri
At play in the fields of metaphor / Ted Cohen
Macbeth appalled / Stanley Cavell.
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