Literature as Exploration (Hardcover, 5)

Foreword by Wayne Booth viiPreface to the Fifth Edition xvpart I. The Province of Literature1. The Challenge of Literature 32. The Literary Experience 24part II. The Human Basis of Literary Sensitivity3. The Setting for Spontaneity 554. What the Student Brings to Literature 745. Broadening the Framework 104part III. Literary Sensitivity as the Sourceof Insight6. Some Basic Social Concepts 1217. Personality 1738. Emotion and Reason 214Coda: A Performing Art 263part IV. ReaffirmationsRetrospect and Prospect 281For Further Reading 299Works Cited 307Index 311