國立高雄大學圖資館 |

Language: English

Back

What we are in literature and art

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	What we are in literature and artby Magdalena Ostas.
Author:	Ostas, Magdalena M.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xviii, 112 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Experience in literature.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96368-1
ISBN:	9783031963681$q(electronic bk.)

What we are in literature and art
Ostas, Magdalena M.

What we are in literature and art[electronic resource] /by Magdalena Ostas. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xviii, 112 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Introduction: The Evidence of Persons -- 2. Expression: Extensions of Selves -- 3. Imagination: The World of a Work -- 4. Insight: The Life That We Uncover.

What We Are in Literature and Art begins from a simple observation: literature and art hand us complex material evidence of the experience of people. This is not a mystical, naive, or hopelessly old-fashioned claim about aesthetic works. The experience that literature and art let us touch, to be sure, is wildly and irreducibly complex. But it is an important idea that creative works like poems, novels, plays, paintings, and photographs give us evidence of the lives of persons. They ask: What are we? This book considers how aesthetic works pose this longest-standing question and become entangled in our philosophical conversations about personhood. It is written for a broad audience interested in the relationship between literature and philosophy. Through sequences of reflective fragments, the book weaves through a diverse constellation of works in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The reflections zigzag through poetry (William Wordsworth to Gwendolyn Brooks), novels (Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf), drama (Henrik Ibsen to Samuel Beckett), visual art (J. M. W. Turner to Jeff Wall), and philosophy (Immanuel Kant to Ludwig Wittgenstein). What We are in Literature and Art is an experiment in philosophical reading. Magdalena Ostas is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

ISBN: 9783031963681$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-96368-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

399312
Experience in literature.

LC Class. No.: PN51 / .O88 2025

Dewey Class. No.: 809.93353

What we are in literature and art
LDR:02449nmm a2200325 a 4500 001 686577
003 DE-He213
005 20250820130238.0
006 m d
007 cr nn 008maaau
008 260213s2025 sz s 0 eng d
020 $a 9783031963681$q(electronic bk.)
020 $a 9783031963674$q(paper)
024 7 $a 10.1007/978-3-031-96368-1 $2 doi
035 $a 978-3-031-96368-1
040 $a GP $c GP
041 0 $a eng
050 4 $a PN51 $b .O88 2025
072 7 $a HPN $2 bicssc
072 7 $a PHI001000 $2 bisacsh
072 7 $a QDTN $2 thema
082 0 4 $a 809.93353 $2 23
090 $a PN51 $b .O85 2025
100 1 $a Ostas, Magdalena M. $3 1000914
245 1 0 $a What we are in literature and art $h [electronic resource] / $c by Magdalena Ostas.
260 $a Cham : $b Springer Nature Switzerland : $b Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2025.
300 $a xviii, 112 p. : $b ill., digital ; $c 24 cm.
505 0 $a Introduction: The Evidence of Persons -- 2. Expression: Extensions of Selves -- 3. Imagination: The World of a Work -- 4. Insight: The Life That We Uncover.
520 $a What We Are in Literature and Art begins from a simple observation: literature and art hand us complex material evidence of the experience of people. This is not a mystical, naive, or hopelessly old-fashioned claim about aesthetic works. The experience that literature and art let us touch, to be sure, is wildly and irreducibly complex. But it is an important idea that creative works like poems, novels, plays, paintings, and photographs give us evidence of the lives of persons. They ask: What are we? This book considers how aesthetic works pose this longest-standing question and become entangled in our philosophical conversations about personhood. It is written for a broad audience interested in the relationship between literature and philosophy. Through sequences of reflective fragments, the book weaves through a diverse constellation of works in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The reflections zigzag through poetry (William Wordsworth to Gwendolyn Brooks), novels (Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf), drama (Henrik Ibsen to Samuel Beckett), visual art (J. M. W. Turner to Jeff Wall), and philosophy (Immanuel Kant to Ludwig Wittgenstein). What We are in Literature and Art is an experiment in philosophical reading. Magdalena Ostas is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
650 0 $a Experience in literature. $3 399312
650 0 $a Art in literature. $3 526816
650 1 4 $a Aesthetics. $3 178371
650 2 4 $a Philosophy of the Self. $3 913186
710 2 $a SpringerLink (Online service) $3 273601
773 0 $t Springer Nature eBook
856 4 0 $u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96368-1
950 $a Religion and Philosophy (SpringerNature-41175)