Introduction to the Philosophy of Literature

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A survey of twentieth-century French tradition in philosophy of literature (Bergson, Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, Ricoeur) and twentieth-century analytical tradition regarding the place of literature in arts, the importance (or not) of the author in the creation and the understanding of a literary work, the assimilation (or not) of literature to fiction, and the existence and nature of truths in literary works.