A Ricoeur reader : reflection and imagination /
Paul Ricoeur is one of the most important modern literary theorists and a philosopher of world renown. This collection brings together his published articles, papers, reviews, and interviews that focus on literary theory and criticism. The first of four sections includes early pieces that explore th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1991
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| Series: | Theory/culture series ;
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| Summary: | Paul Ricoeur is one of the most important modern literary theorists and a philosopher of world renown. This collection brings together his published articles, papers, reviews, and interviews that focus on literary theory and criticism. The first of four sections includes early pieces that explore the philosophical foundations for a post-structural hermeneutics. The second contains reviews and essays in which Ricoeur engages in debate over some of the central themes of literary theory, including figuration/configuration and narrativity. In the third section are later essays on post-structuralist hermeneutics, and in the fourth, interviews in which he discusses text, language, and myths. Mario Valdés provides an introduction to the literary theories of Paul Ricoeur and the works in this collection particularly. He also includes a complete bibliography of Ricoeur's works that have appeared in English Ricorur's argument has four parts: the examination of language as discourse; the adjustment needed in order to focus on written discourse as distinct from spoken; a theory of text-this part takes up the contributing factors of the polysemy of words and the ambiguity of sentences in order to confront the problem of plurivocity on full works such as poems and essays and; the culmination of textual theory of interpretation, which is a dialectic of explanation and understanding |
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| Item Description: | Some contributions translated from French |
| Physical Description: | 516 p. ; 24 cm xiv, 516 p. : ill. ; 24 cm xiv, 516 p. ; 24 cm xiv, 516 pages : 24 cm xiv, 516 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index Includes bibliographical references "Paul Ricoeur's work in English": p. [499]-503 |
| ISBN: | 0802058809 (alk. paper) : 0802058809 (bound) : 0802058809 (cloth : acid-free) : 0802058809 0802068146 (pbk. : alk. paper) : 0802068146 (pbk.) : 0802068146 (pbk.) 0802068146 9780802058805 9780802068149 |