ELS 602: PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE Lecturer:
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Description: ELS 602 PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE Lecturer Professor AN Akwanya ORCID 0000000253316899 Department of English Literary Studies University of Nigeria Nsukka 1 Outline Basic Questions for a Philosophy of Literature Philosophy and
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ELS 602: PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE Lecturer: Professor A.N. Akwanya (ORCID. 0000-0002-5331-6899 Department of English & Literary Studies University of Nigeria, Nsukka 1 Outline Basic Questions for a Philosophy of Literature Philosophy and Criticism Philosophy and Literature Philosophy of Self-Subsistent Art Essence of Literature Nature of Literature: A Semantic Description Reading: The Natural Attitude Inspiration, Composition, and Poiesis Knowledge of Things through their Ultimate Causes Closing 2 Reading List A.N. Akwanya. Literary Criticism: From Formal to Questions of Method. Nigeria: University of Nigeria Press, 2017. A.N. Akwanya. Literature and Aspects of Causality. Nigeria: University of Nigeria Press, 2018. A.N. Akwanya. Verbal Structures: Studies in the Nature and Organizational Patterns of Literary Language, Acena Publishers, 1997-2004. Amechi N. Akwanya, ‘Heidegger, Poetry, and the Call of Being: Modern Literary Theory and the Thinking of What had been Forgotten’. Lead Paper at First Professor Fidelis Uzochukwu Okafor Annual International Lecture, Anambra State University, Igbariam Campus, 2-4 October 2014. Amechi N. Akwanya. ‘Aristotle’s Double Bequest to Literary Theory and Two Discourses of Truth’. International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (IJHSS). Vol. 3, Issue 4, (July 2014). 35-46. www.iaset.us. Aristotle. Metaphysics. Trans. Hugh Lawson-Tancred. Penguin Books, 1998. Aristotle. On the Art of Poetry, Trans. T.S. Dorsch. Penguin, 1965. Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism. New York: Atheneum, 1970. Frye, Northrop. The Great Code. Ark Publications, 1982-1983. Gupta, Susan. Social Constructionist Identity Politics and Literary Studies. Palgrave, 2007 Habermas, Jürgen. ‘Modernity - An Incomplete Project’. The Norton Anthology of Criticism and Theory. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001, 1748-1759. Halliwell, Stephen. The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems. New Jersey: Princeton UP, 2002. Hegel, Gottfried W. F. Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, 2 vols. Translated by T. M. Knox. The Clarendon Press, I975. Heidegger, Martin. Existence and Being. Translated by Phil Werner Brock. Henry Regnery, 1949. Heidegger, Martin. Poetry, Language, Thought. Translated by Albert Hofstadter. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1971. Heidegger, Martin. What is Called Thinking? Translated by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray. Harper & Row, 1968. Plato. Ion Or: On the Iliad. Koninklijke Brill, 2007. 3 Basic Questions for a Philosophy of Literature 1. Is a philosophy of literature an enquiry of the same kind as the philosophy of history; the philosophy of law, or science? What knowledge does the philosophy of literature cultivate; what knowledge does it teach? There is a saying, which is a motto shared by
