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(ANALYTIC) PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE

ASSOCIATIONS

• Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC)

• International Association for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media

• International Association of Literary Semantics

• Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics

CONFERENCES

2012:

2011:

2010:

• Literature, History, Cognition, Departments of French and Philosophy, University of Nottingham, October 15

• Language, Truth, and Literature, Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, June 7
• Philosophy in Literature, University of Vaasa, Finland, May 27-28

2009:

• Style in Theory / Styling Theory, Inaugural International Literary Criticism and Theory Conference
  Series, Department of English, University of Malta, November 26-28
• The Surplus of Culture: Sense, Common-Sense, Non-Sense, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures,
  University of Silesia, September 16-20
• Genre and Interpretation, Finnish Literary Society and Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies, Helsinki, June 10–12

2008:

• 11th International Conference, International Association for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media, University of Memphis, July 8-11
• Global Arts, Local Knowledge, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Melbourne, June 30-July 6
• Philosophy and Literature / Literature and Philosophy, Inaugural Conference, Centre for Literature and Philosophy, University of Sussex, June 12-14
• Character and Emotions, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Université de Genevè, April 25
• Philosophy of Literature, Ratio Conference 2008, University of Reading, April 12

2007:

• Poets Reading Philosophy / Philosophers Reading Poetry, Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts , University of Warwick, October 26-28

2006:

• Future Literature, Future Art: Probing the Boundaries of Criticism, Cracow, Poland, November 30-December 2
• Textual Scholarship and the Material Book: Comparative Approaches, European Society for Textual Scholarship, Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, November 23-25
• 2006 Conference, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC), Hotel Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco, California, October 13-15
• In Search of (Non)Sense: Literary Semantics and the Related Fields and Disciplines, International Association of Literary Semantics, Institute of English Philology, Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland, October 12-14
• Unpacking the Library: Literatures and their Archives, English Colloquia Series, University of Westminister, June 10
• Literature, the Literary and the Literal, Department of Philosophy, University of York, June 8
• Con/texts of Invention, Society for Critical Exchange, Case Western Reserve University, April 20-23
• Critical Aesthetics, Cornell University, April 6-8
• New Directions in Critical Theory, University of Arizona, April 6

   

2005:

• Textual Culture, Centre for Textual Culture, Literature and Technology, University of Stirling, July 19-20
• Music, Poetry and Sense Experience, New Languages for Criticism: Cross-currents and Resistances and the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL), École des Hautes Etudes et Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, June 10-11
• Future Literature, Future Criticism, Prague, Czech Republic, March 17-19

• Poetry and Belief, Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick, February 25

• Character and Imagination, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, January 29

2004:

• IV Congreso Internacional de Teoria y Critica Literaria, Centro de Estudios de Teoria y Critica literaria, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina, August 18-20

• Cultures, Theories, Critiques, Department of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham, April

2003:

• Theory Now: a One Day Conference in Memory of Antony Easthope, Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, October 4

• Reconciling "Anglistik": Didactic Strategies for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Universität Trier, Germany, October 2-4

• Radicality, Criticism and Reality: Considering the Past, the Present and the Future of Challenging Critiques, Centre for Critical Practice, School of English, University of Central England, September 27

• New Languages for Criticism: In(ter)discipline, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, September 19-21

• Whither Theory?  Université de Paris X (Nanterre) and the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales, Cardiff, June 19-21

2002:

• Theory Now: a Conference in Memory of Antony Easthope, Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, June 28-30

2001:

2000:

Annual:

COURSES

• University of British Columbia: Philosophy of Literature (Lopes)
• University of Cape Town: Philosophy of Art and Literature (Galgut)

• Gonzaga University: Philosophy of Literature (Alfino)

• Grinnell College: Philosophy and Literature (Schrift)

• University of Kent: Philosophy in Literature (Harcourt)

• Lignan University: Philosophy and Literature
• Kansas State University: Introduction to Philosophy of Art and Literature (Hamilton)
• Manchester Metropolitan University: Philosophy of Literature (Haase)

• University of Melbourne: Philosophy and Literature (Cordner)

• Ohio University: Philosophy and Literature (Trachtenberg)

• Staffordshire University: Philosophy, Art and Literature (Shott)

• Tufts University: Philosophy and Literature (Baz)

• University of Wales, Swansea: Philosophy and Literature (Phillips)

• University of Washington: Philosophy in Literature (Hannah)

• Wesleyan University: Philosophy and Literature

JOURNALS

• Philosophy and Literature (also here)

PHILOSOPHERS

• Monroe C. Beardsley (1915 - 1985)

• Morris Weitz (1916 - )

• Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)

• Richard Wollheim (1923 - 2003)

• Arthur C. Danto (1924 - )

• Stanley Cavell (1926 - ) (see also Pragmatist Literary Theory)

• Noel Carroll (1947 - )

• Martha C. Nussbaum (1947 - )

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Bolling, Doug, ed.  Philosophy and Literature.  New York: Haven, 1987.
  • Davies, David, and Carl Matheson, eds.  Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Literature.  Peterborough, ONT: Broadview, 2005.
  • Fox, Richard, ed.  Readings in Philosophy and Literature.  Kendall-Hunt, 1971.
  • John, Eileen, and Dominic McIver Lopes, eds.  The Philosophy of Literature: Classic and Contemporary Readings.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
  • Lamarque, Peter, ed.  Philosophy and Fiction: Essays in Literary Aesthetics.  Aberdeen: Aberdeen UP, 1983.
  • Thompson, Peter, ed.  Philosophy and Literature: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Commitment.  Harcourt College, 1969.  Rpt. 2001.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Currie, Gregory.  The Nature of Fiction.  Cambridge: CUP, 1990.
  • Davies, David.  Aesthetics and Literature.  London: Continuum, 2007.
  • Dasenbrock, Reed Way.  Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2001.
  • Eldridge, Richard.  Literature, Life, and Modernity.  New York: Columbia UP, 2008.

  • Ellis, John.  The Theory of Criticism: a Logical Analysis.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1977.

  • Lamarque, Peter.  The Philosophy of Literature.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.
  • Lamarque, Peter.  Fictional Points of View.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996.
  • Lamarque, Peter, and Stein Haugom Olsen.  Truth, Fiction and Literature.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.
  • New, Christopher.  Philosophy of Literature: an Introduction.  London: Routledge, 1999.
  • Olsen, Stein Haugom.  The End of Literary Theory.  Cambridge: CUP, 1987.
  • Olsen, Stein Haugom.  The Structure of Literary Understanding.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.

  • Uhlmann, Anthony.  Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov.  London: Continuum, 2011.

  • Voltolini, Alberto.  How Ficta Follow Fiction: a Syncretistic Account of Fictional Entities.  Dordrecht: Springer, 2006.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Griffiths, A. Phillips, ed.  Philosophy and Literature.  Cambridge: CUP, 1984.
  • Jost, Walter, and Kenneth Dauber, eds.  Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking after Cavell after Wittgenstein.  Afterword by Stanley Cavell.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2003.
  • Rudrum, David, ed.  Literature and Philosophy: a Guide to Contemporary Debates.  London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Baldwin, Robert C., and James A. S. McPeek.  An Introduction to Philosophy through Literature.  New York: Ronald, 1950.
  • Davies, David.  The Philosophy of Literature.  Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2004.
  • Hahn, Stephen.  On Philosophy in Literature.  Belmont: Wadsworth, 2004.
  • Johnson, Charles W.  Philosophy in Literature.  Emtext, 1992.
  • Klieman, Lowell, and Stephen Lewis.  Philosophy: an Introduction through Literature.  New York: Paragon, 1992.
  • Kolenda, Konstantin.  Philosophy in literature: Metaphysical Darkness and Ethical Light.  New York: Barnes and Noble, 1982.
  • Kuhns, Richard Francis.  Structures of Experience: Essays on the Affinity between Philosophy and Literature.  New York: Basic, 1970.
  • Martin, Graham Dunstan.  Language, Truth, and Poetry: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Literature.  New York: Columbia UP, 1980.
  • Muller, Gustav Emil.  Philosophy of Literature.  Ayer, 1976.

  • Murdoch, Iris.  Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1997.

  • New, Christopher.  Philosophy of Literature: an Introduction.  London: Routledge, 1999.
  • Porter, Burton F.  Philosophy Through Fiction and Film.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2003.
  • Rickman, H. P.  Philosophy in Literature.  Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1996.

  • Ross, Julian L.  Philosophy in Literature.  Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1949.

  • Rowe, M. M.  Philosophy and Literature: a Book of Essays.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

  • Skilleas, Ole Martin.  Philosophy and Literature: an Introduction.  New York: Columbia UP, 2001.

  • Miller, Eugene M., and Edmund J. Thomas, eds.  Writers and Philosophers: a Sourcebook of Philosophical Influences on Literature.  New York: Greenwood, 1990.
  • Tschumi, Raymond.  A Philosophy of Literature.  Dufour, 1968.
  • Weitz, Morris.  Philosophy in Literature: Shakespeare, Voltaire, Tolstoy, Proust.  Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1963.

On-Line:

• Adams, Jon: The Anxiety of Criticism: Science and the Humanities in the 20th Century

• Lederman, Doug: A Defining Election [on the Decline of the ALSC] Inside Higher Ed April 25, 2008

• Lopes, Dominick McIvor: Selected Bibliography of Philosophy of Literature

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Philosophy and Literature

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

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  • Belgium:

    • Universiteit Antwerpen: Departement Wijsbegeerte: Centrum voor filosofie van de kunst en literatuur

  • France:

  • United Kingdom:

    • Eire:

      • University of Limerick: Mary Immaculate College: MA in Philosophy and Literature

    • England:

      • University of Essex:
        • Department of Literature, Film and Television Studies: Sociology of Literature Project
        • Department of Philosophy: BA Philosophy and Literature
      • University of Sussex:
        • Centre for Literature and Philosophy: MA in Literature and Philosophy
      • University of Warwick: 
        • Department of Philosophy: Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature
          • BA in Philosophy and Literature
          • MA in Philosophy and Literature
          • PhD in Philosophy and Literature

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USA:

• Kalamazoo College: Interdisciplinary Studies in Philosophy and Literature
• University of Kansas: Philosophy and Literature Seminar
• Mount St. Mary's College: Philosophy in Literature (McCutcheon)
• New York, State University of (SUNY):
  • Binghampton: 
    • Department of Comparative Literature: Doctoral Program in Philosophy, Literature and the Theory of Criticism
    • Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Program
  • Stony Brook: 
    • Department of Philosophy:
      • Graduate Certificate Programme in Art and Philosophy
      • Undergraduate Research Track in Philosophy and Literature
• University of Notre Dame: Program in Philosophy and Literature
• Purdue University: English and Philosophy PhD Program
• US Military Academy: Art, Philosophy and Literature

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