In Defense of Literary Truth: A Response to Truth, Fiction, and Literature by Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen to Inquire into No-Truth Theories of Literature, Pragmatism, and the Ontology of Fictional Objects

Pitari, Paolo

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“…Although I accept Lamarque and Olsen's stance regarding literary truth, 10 this literary depiction fi nds support in contemporary research. 11 In a pivotal moment in the fourth chapter, as Liat develops feelings for Hilmi, she recalls an Israeli radio commercial, warning Jewish women about the seduction and kidnapping by Islamic 10 For a challenge of Lamarque and Olsen's stance on the relation between literary truth and literary value, see Pitari (2022).…”

Section: Long For My Mother's Bread My Mother's Coffeementioning

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The Dark Side of Cultural Sensitivity

Barchana-Lorand

2024

Croat. j. philos. (Online)

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In their discussion of the interpretation of the literary work of fiction, Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen explain that: “Literary appreciation is the appreciation of how a work interprets and develops the general themes which the reader identifies through the application of thematic concepts. […] The thematic concepts are, by themselves, vacuous. They cannot be separated from the way they are ‘anatomized’ in literature and other cultural discourses” (Lamarque and Olsen: 399). The subtle unravelling of the work’s thematic concepts relies on the context of its reception, with its idiosyncratic sensitivities and cultural sensibilities of that time and place. However, cultural sensitivity also has a dark side as it may occasionally ignite a sort of allergic reaction to a work, identifying it as a threat that must be eliminated. My paper examines the case of literary censorship in Israel. Three partially banned works of fiction reflect three aspects of the Israeli right-wing anxiety concerning the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict: The futility of sacrificing Israeli soldiers’ lives, the acknowledgement of the Palestinian perspective, and, fi nally, the possibility of deflecting the animosity between the two nations to a point of allowing for mutual love.

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Section: Long For My Mother's Bread My Mother's Coffeementioning

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The Dark Side of Cultural Sensitivity

Barchana-Lorand

2024

Croat. j. philos. (Online)

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Problems in Philosophy of Literature

Pitari

2024

JLS

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This article discusses methodological inconsistencies affecting philosophy of literature today, especially in its analytical and perspectivist instantiations. In doing so, it raises questions on method that apply to the humanities in general. As a result of the inquiry, an invitation to return to ontology-metaphysics is formulated: too often, isolating specificities from their contexts can lead to arbitrary definitions and incomplete analyses. It might be necessary to adopt a wider outlook—one which seeks the foundations of knowledge and to explain a specific object in relation to its widest possible context—to explain many of the literary objects we want to understand.

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In Defense of Literary Truth: A Response to Truth, Fiction, and Literature by Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen to Inquire into No-Truth Theories of Literature, Pragmatism, and the Ontology of Fictional Objects

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The Dark Side of Cultural Sensitivity

The Dark Side of Cultural Sensitivity

Problems in Philosophy of Literature

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