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Literature and Understanding : The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts by J. W. Phelan is a education title available to read on EtoBox.
What is Literature and Understanding : The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts about?
Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader’s close analysis of a literary text. It examines the meaning of ‘literature’, outlines the most prominent positions in the literary cognitivism debate, explores the practice of close reading from a philosophical perspective, provides a fresh account of what we mean by ‘understanding’ and in so doing opens up a new area of research in the philosophy of literature. This book provides a different r
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Common subject areas: education, pedagogy.
- Author
- J. W. Phelan
- Publisher
- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781000201147
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Education
- Updated
- 2026-03-25