TY - JOUR
AU - Silverman, Stuart
AB - KNOWLEDGE AND ACCEPTANCE, AND THE EXPERIENCE OF LITERATURE Stuart Silverman TH E POSSIBILITY of knowledge, as well as the nature of that possible being, constitute a venerable, and complex branch of philosophy: epistemology. Any attempt on my part to provide an overview of the field would necessarily be simplistic and naive. I think it will be reason- able, however, to discuss aspec.ts of literature which suggest or abut on epistemological theory, and I believe in fact that some such discussion is imperative for modern criticism. The work of scholar-critics as diverse and provocative as Frye, Ran- som, Burke, Richards, Brooks, Crane and so on often explores, with varying results, the problem of the relation between the real world and the world in the poem, play, novel, or the literary anomaly such as Gulliuer's Travels or Finnegaris Wake. The literary artifact is seen as distinguished from non-literary verbal artifacts because it evokes or recreates experience rather than conveying information about exper- ience; it is seen as austerely self-contained by some, by others as existing largely because it summarizes and dramatizes universal conditions, either making them accessible to the conscious mind or permitting a healthful catharsis of anxieties associated with those 
TI - KNOWLEDGE AND ACCEPTANCE, AND THE EXPERIENCE OF LITERATURE
JF - The British Journal of Aesthetics
DO - 10.1093/bjaesthetics/13.3.243
DA - 1973-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/knowledge-and-acceptance-and-the-experience-of-literature-1pm9FcFmyo
SP - 243
EP - 250
VL - 13
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -