Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature Andrea Selleri • Philip Gaydon Editors Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature

New Interdisciplinary Directions Editors Andrea Selleri Philip Gaydon Department of English and Department of Philosophy Comparative Literature University of Warwick University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom Coventry, UK

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This book is a distant offshoot of the conference 21st-Century Theories of Literature: Essence, Fiction and Value, which we organised at the University of Warwick in March 2014. Our thanks go to Eileen John for her work with us on that project, as well as to all participants. Financial support for the conference was provided by the British Society of , the American Society for Aesthetics, the Analysis Trust, and the University of Warwick’s Humanities Research Centre, International Office, Philosophy Department and Institute for Advanced Studies. We published some of our considerations stemming from the event as ‘21st-Century Theories of Literature: A Critical Reflection on an Interdisciplinary Event’ (2014) in Exchanges: The Warwick Research Journal, 2:1, 174–183 (web). We would like to thank Karen Simecek and an anonymous reviewer for helping shape those thoughts. We then jointly presented some of our results at the conference Transfusion and Transformation: The Creative Potential of Interdisciplinary Knowledge Exchange at the University of Durham. Thanks also have to go to Michael Luntley for helping with those essays which covered areas where our expertise was lacking. Andrea Selleri would also like to thank his family and his partner for their continued support. Phil Gaydon would like to thank the IATL team for continuing to help shape his thoughts on interdisciplinary prac- tice, Eileen John and Jackie Labbe for allowing him to finish this project despite the fact his PhD still needs to be completed, and his family, friends, and Sophie for being the ones who continue to support him through everything.

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1 Introduction 1 Andrea Selleri and Philip Gaydon

Part I Interdisciplinary Interaction in Theory 15

2 Criticism, Philosophy and the Differend 17 Catherine Belsey

3 The Discipline of Literary Studies 37 Stein Haugom Olsen

4 of Literature: Problems and Prospects 65 Jukka Mikkonen

Part II Interdisciplinary Interaction in Practice 81

5 ‘I Will Draw a Map of What You Never See’: Cartographic Metaphor in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations 83 Michael Rose-Steel

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6 The Pleasures of Solipsism for Writers and Philosophers 103 Ery Shin

7 To Tell What Happened as Invention: Literature and Philosophy on Learning from Fiction 123 Manuel García-Carpintero

Part III Using the Philosophy of Literature in Literary Studies 149

8 Poetic Utterances: Attuning Poetry and Philosophy 151 Maximilian de Gaynesford

9 What Difference (If Any) Is There Between Reading as Fiction and Reading as Non-fiction? 169 Derek Matravers

10 The Opacity of Testimony; or, What the Philosophy of Literature Can Tell Us About How to Read Holocaust Narratives 185 Samuel O’Donoghue

Part IV Using Literary Studies in the Philosophy of Literature 205

11 Literary Examples in Analytic Aesthetics: The Claim of the Empirical 207 Andrea Selleri

12 What Do We Do with Words? Framing What Is at Stake in Dealing with Literature 225 Marianna Ginocchietti and Giulia Zanfabro Contents ix

13 Electronic Literature and Its Departure from the Supremacy of the Author Function 243 Heiko Zimmermann

Bibliography 267

Index 287 Contributors

Catherine Belsey is Professor Emeritus at Swansea University and Visiting Professor in English at the University of Derby. Her books include Criticism (2016), Critical Practice, Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction, Culture and the Real and A Future for Criticism. She has also published books on Shakespeare, Milton and love stories in Western culture. Maximilian de Gaynesford formerly Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of I: The Meaning of the First Person Term, and John McDowell, as well as many articles on aesthetics, and and language. Manuel García-Carpintero has a PhD from the University of Barcelona, where he has taught since 1984. He was a Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities and has been appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Lisbon. He has published papers on philosophical logic, the philosophy of lan- guage, the philosophy of mind, and related epistemological and metaphysical issues. Currently he is completing a book for OUP on the nature of speech acts, assertion in particular, entitled Tell Me What You Know. Marianna Ginocchietti has recently completed a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Trieste with a thesis titled Actions: A Plea for An Ordinary Framework. Her main research interests lie in the areas of philosophy of action, pragmatics and speech act theory. Stein Haugom Olsen is at present Pro-Rector at Østfold University College in Norway. He has held chairs at the Universities of Oslo and Bergen in Norway and at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has written extensively on problems in the

xi xii Contributors philosophy of literature and literary aesthetics as well as a number of articles of literary criticism. He is currently working on a book about the origin of literary criticism as an academic discipline. Derek Matravers is Professor of Philosophy at the Open University and a Senior Member of Darwin College, Cambridge. He has published two books recently: Introducing Philosophy of Art: Eight Case Studies and Fiction and Narrative. He is also the author of Art and Emotion, as well as numerous articles on aesthetics, eth- ics and the philosophy of mind. Jukka Mikkonen is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland. He has published The Cognitive Value of Philosophical Fiction and he has authored papers on philosophical fiction and cognitive value in a number of collections and journals. Samuel O’Donoghue is currently completing a PhD in Hispanic Studies at University College . His thesis examines the influence of the French writer Marcel Proust on contemporary Spanish memory fiction. His research in the fields of comparative literature, Spanish literature and Holocaust testimony has appeared in Modern Language Review, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Romance Studies and Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. Mike Rose-Steel is a PhD researcher at the University of Exeter, writing on Wittgenstein, poetics and the limits of expression. His publications include ‘The Mysterious and the Marginal: The Incubation of Poetry Within and About the Occult Writings of Sir John Grantner’ and ‘Cartographical Thinking and the Poetry of Kei Miller’. His research is combined with his poetic practice in his Paraphernalium, a collaborative pamphlet through Spindlebox, and site-specific projects with the Exegesis writing collective. In 2015, he co-curated ‘Wor(l)ds­ in Collision’, an exhibition of text-art accompanying the British Wittgenstein Society annual conference. Andrea Selleri is an Associate Fellow at the University of Warwick, where he recently completed a PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies. His areas of interest include nineteenth-century European literary culture, intellectual his- tory more generally, and the philosophy of literature. His work on these matters has appeared in the Philosophy and Literature, Review of English Studies, the Journal of Literary Theory, Notes and Queries and Authorship. He is writing a book on the idea of the author in nineteenth-century literary criticism. Ery Shin is a Lecturer at Stanford University’s Structured Liberal Education Program. Among her areas of interest are modernism, queer-feminist criticism, phenomenology, art history, and East Asian film. Her current book project thinks through Gertrude Stein’s surrealist gestures against the backdrop of WWII and Contributors xiii her own Jewish-American heritage, while her individual essays can be found in Texas Studies in Literature and Language and the Journal of Modern Literature. Giulia Zanfabro has recently completed a PhD in Literary Theory at the University of Trieste with a thesis on children’s literature. She graduated at the University of Trieste with a thesis on J. M. Coetzee’s fiction. Her areas of interest include J. M. Coetzee’s fiction, feminist theories, gender studies, and children’s literature. Heiko Zimmermann is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Trier. His interests in scholarship include E. M. Forster’s work, memory, remembrance on Web 2.0 and hypertext theory. His recent publications include ‘Performance and Social Interaction: New Challenges for the Archiving of Digital Writing’, ‘Diverging Strategies of Remembrance in Traditional and Web-2.0 On-Line Projects’ and Autorschaft und digitale Literatur. List of Figures

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