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Title: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Literature

Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Literature

Essays

by Margaret Collins Weitz (Author)
©1996 Monographs XV, 182 Pages
English Studies
Series: New Studies in Aesthetics, Volume 10

Summary

This volume brings together a group of essays that examine the relationship between philosophy and literature - disciplines that have been opposed as often as they have been combined. While the focus is primarily on the plays of Shakespeare, there is a lengthy essay on the use of the style term maniera in art history, and a concluding survey and analysis of the relationship between philosophy and literature, from Plato to the present. The author applies the theory of meaning and logical analysis to contemporary problems in the arts and aesthetics.

Details

Pages
XV, 182
Year
1996
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820416793
Language
English
Keywords
Maniera Meaning Logical analysis Plato
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1995. XV, 182 pp.

Biographical notes

Margaret Collins Weitz (Author)

The Author: Morris Weitz (1916-1981) received a B.A. degree at Wayne State University and, after graduate work in history at the University of Chicago, received a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Michigan. During a distinguished career, Weitz taught philosophy and the history of ideas principally at Vassar College, Ohio State and Brandeis universities. He received many awards, fellowships, and lecture invitations. In his first book, Philosophy of the Arts (1950), and in his many subsequent books and articles, critics noted his close acquaintance with the arts themselves, including: literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, and film. The Editor: Margaret Collins Weitz is Professor of Humanities at Suffolk University (Boston) and a Senior Affiliate of Harvard University.

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