'This is stimulating: the woolly blankets are being dragged off - one hopes that Mr Eaton will expand this into a leisurely treatise. He seems big enough and sure enough to confront Dr. I. A. Richards on his own level.' Extract from a review in the Times Literary Supplement November 24th 1966 of Trevor Eaton's short, early monograph, The Semantics of Literature. The leisurely treatise followed - but piecemeal, over a period of 40 years - and only now has the author found time and opportunity to present the integrated work. This is it. *** Literary Semantics develops an original, simple but philosophically potent idea into a theory for the human sciences - covering philosophy, logic, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics ontology, morality, religion, neurology, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, history and education. A structured Glossary provides a roadmap to navigate these complexities. This revolutionary idea - the trichotomy of knowledge, a threefold division comprising everything that could ever be considered knowledge - seamlessly integrates aesthetics and ethics within an all-embracing epistemology, thus placing the arts on an equal footing with science. From the trichotomy are derived theories of truth, affidence, science, value, semics, semantics of literature, modality, style and fictionality. This heretical and starkly provocative book ventures far beyond literature in exploring the cognitive problems which have beset literary studies since Aristotle. The author believes that many English departments, in terms of academic progress, are simply wasting their time.
| ISBN | 1907040064 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781907040061
(What's this?) | | Pages | 328 | | Publisher | Melrose Books | | Weight (grammes) | 504 | | Imprint | Melrose Books | | Published in | Ely | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 15 Feb 2010 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 801.959 | | Academic level | General |
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