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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is a very important and original study of literary theory and is written in an admirably efficient and effective style which reflects the author's exceptionally mature scholarship and clear thinking about the cluster of essential topics related to literature and philosophy. * Midwest Book Review *
This book is a very important and original study of literary theory and is written in an admirably efficient and effective style which reflects the author's exceptionally mature scholarship and clear thinking about the cluster of essential topics related to literature and philosophy. * Midwest Book Review *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Permission Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 General Introduction Chapter 5 Part I: The Historical Search for a Literary Aesthetic Chapter 6 Traditional Perspective: Literature as Beauty, Truth, Meaning and the Sublime Chapter 7 Part II: The Scope and Limits of Rational Literary Theory Chapter 8 The Obsolescent Critical Language of Today Chapter 9 Genre: Kind, Form or Modulation? Chapter 10 Image, Metaphor and Symbol Chapter 11 The Neo-Aristotelian Analysis and the Limits of Logic Chapter 12 European Criticism of Anglo-American Formalism Chapter 13 Part III: Literary Theory as Human Science Chapter 14 The Search for a Science of Literary Criticism Chapter 15 Part IV: The Psychological Interpretation of Literature Chapter 16 Scope and Limits of the Freudian Psychoanalytical Interpretation of Literature Chapter 17 C.G. Jung's Analytical Psychology and its Implications for Interpreting Literature Chapter 18 Paul Diel's Psychology of Motivation: Subconscious Fate versus Supraconcsious Destiny Chapter 19 Part V: The Mystical Dimension in Literature Chapter 20 Introduction to Part V Chapter 21 Dante's Vita Nuova as Riddle: A Medieval Meditation on the Numinous Chapter 22 Four Dimensions of Signification in The Old Man and the Sea Chapter 23 The Mystical Dimension of J.P. Sartre's Nausea Chapter 24 Conclusion to Part V Chapter 25 General Conclusion Chapter 26 Appendix A Chapter 27 Notes Chapter 28 Bibliography Chapter 29 Chapter-by-Chapter Summary Index Chapter 30 Alpha Index
