Philosophical Approaches to Literature New Essays on 19th and 20th Century Texts

This volume presents eleven new essays that reveal how significant nineteenth-and twentieth-century writers have drawn from, and in some cases, opposed major trends in philosophy. Essays in this collection deal with Tennyson, Coleridge, Woolf, Faulkner, De Quincey, Beckett, romance as a genre, the state of contemporary literary theory as shaped by the writings of Wittgenstein, Ricoeur and Derrida, and other topics.Cain, William E. is the author of 'Philosophical Approaches to Literature New Essays on 19th and 20th Century Texts' with ISBN 9780838750551 and ISBN 0838750559.