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Literary
Theory After Davidson Reed Way Dasenbrock
1993
Literature and Philosophy, Literary Theory and Criticism
Paperback: $21.95 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-02327-4
Donald
Davidson is probably the most eminent living analytic philosopher,
and his writings in philosophy of language and philosophy of action
have shaped much of the recent work in both these fields. However,
despite the obvious shared concerns of literary theory and these aspects
of philosophy, up to this point literary theorists have not paid much
attention to Davidson's ideas or have only known about them through
the interpretations of other philosophers like Richard Rorty. Literary
theorists have seen more relevance to their concerns in Continental
philosophy and, among analytic philosophers, in the essentially anti-analytic
work of J. L. Austin and Ludwig Wittgenstein than in the harder tradition
of analytic philosophy-more concerned with logic and philosophy of
science-represented by the work of Donald Davidson. Literary Theory
after Davidson challenges both views, stressing the variety of ways
in which Davidson's thought can contribute to the development of literary
theory. Davidson himself has contributed a new essay to the collection
that explores the interrelations between his theories of language
and literature.
Reed
Way Dasenbrock is Professor of English at New Mexico State
University and Jerome S. Cardin is Visiting Professor of the Humanities
at Loyola College in Maryland for 1992-93.e. He is the author of Imitating
the Italians: Wyatt, Spenser, Synge, Pound, Joyce (Johns Hopkins,
1991) and editor of Redrawing the Lines: Analytic Philosophy,
Deconstruction, and Literary Theory (Minnesota, 1989).
