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Interpretation & Literature

This CD provides teachers with a comprehensive resource for exploring the philosophy of literature in the classroom. From video interviews with Iris Murdoch to an analysis of philosophical fiction, this CD covers a range of topics related to literature and its philosophical implications.

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Interpretation & Literature

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  1. Dialogue Education Update 3 Interpretation & Literature THIS CD HAS BEEN PRODUCED FOR TEACHERS TO USE IN THE CLASSROOM. IT IS A CONDITION OF THE USE OF THIS CD THAT IT BE USED ONLY BY THE PEOPLE FROM SCHOOLS THAT HAVE PURCHASED THE CD ROM FROM DIALOGUE EDUCATION. (THIS DOES NOT PROHIBIT ITS USE ON A SCHOOL’S INTRANET)

  2. Content • Page 3 - Video interview with Iris Murdoch • Page 4 - Introductory comments about Philosophy of Literature • Pages 6 to 8 - Literature and Language • Page 9 - The Truth of Fiction • Page 10 - Philosophical Poems • Pages 11-12 - Notable Philosophical Poets • Page 13 - Philosophical Fiction • Page 14 - Philosophical Literature • Page 16 - Works of Fiction with Philosophical Content • Page 17 - Community of Inquiry Exercise- The Brothers Karamazov • Page 18 - Philosophical Writings as Literature • Pages 19 to 21 - Philosophical Writings in Literature • Page 22 - Bibliography

  3. You Tube Video on Philosophy and Literature with Iris Murdoch (5 Part series) • Click on the image to the left. You will need to be connected to the internet to view this presentation. • Enlarge to full screen

  4. Interpretation & Literature • Strictly speaking, the philosophy of literature is a branch of aesthetics, the branch of philosophy that deals with the question, "what is art"?

  5. Interpretation & Literature The very existence of narrative raises philosophical issues.

  6. Literature and language • Plato, for one, believed that literary culture and even the lyrics of popular music had a strong impact on the ethical outlook of its consumers.

  7. Philosophy of Literature More recently, however, philosophers of various stripes have taken different and less hostile approaches to literature.

  8. As such, techniques and tools developed for literary criticism and literary theory rose to greater prominence in Western philosophy of the late twentieth century.

  9. The truth of fiction • Literary works also pose issues concerning truth and the philosophy of language.

  10. Philosophical poems • A number of poets have written poems on philosophical themes, and some important philosophers have expressed their philosophy in verse.

  11. Many of the Eastern philosophers worked out their thought in poetical fashion. Some of the important names include: • Vyasa • Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi • Omar Khayyám • Sheikh Saadi • Hafiz Shirazi • Muhammad Iqbal • Matsuo Bashō • Farad ud-Din Attar

  12. Notable Western philosophical poets include: • St. John of the Cross • T. S. Eliot • Hildegard von Bingen • Homer • James Wright • Marianne Moore • Pablo Neruda • William Carlos Williams • Mary Oliver • Leslie Marmon Silko • Robert Creeley

  13. Philosophical fiction • Some philosophers have undertaken to write philosophy in the form of fiction, including novels and short stories.

  14. Philosophy of Literature • Other philosophers have resorted to narrative to get their teachings across.

  15. A number of philosophers have had important influence on literature.

  16. Works of Fiction with Philosophical Content • Other works of fiction considered to have philosophical content include: • Abubacer, Philosophus Autodidactus • Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness • Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov • James Joyce, Ulysses • Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis • Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being • Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodidactus • Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain • Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea • Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time • William Shakespeare, Hamlet • Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich • Sergio Troncoso, The Nature of Truth • Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

  17. Philosophical writing as literature • A number of philosophers are still read for the literary merits of their works apart from their philosophical content. • Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy is noted for the quality and readability of its prose, as are some of the works of the British Empiricists, such as Locke and Hume.

  18. Philosophers in literature • Socrates appears in a highly fictionalized guise, as a comic figure and the object of mockery, in The Clouds by Aristophanes.

  19. Philosophers in literature cont. Jorge Luis Borges is perhaps the twentieth century's preeminent author of philosophical fiction.

  20. Philosophers in literature cont. • A key plot point in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose turns on the discovery of a mysterious book that turns out to contain a lost manuscript by Aristotle.

  21. Bibliography • The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Ted Honderich, ed., (Oxford University Press, 1995) ISBN 0-19-866132-0 • Borges, Jorge Luis, Collected Fictions, 1998. Translated by Andrew Hurley. ISBN 0-14-028680-2. • Magee, Bryan, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (Oxford University Press, revised edition, 1977) ISBN 0-19-823722-7. • Wikipedia-Philosophy of Literature- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_literature

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