Charles Altieri is Stageberg Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value and The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects, both from Cornell, and Postmodernisms Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts.

• 1. Why Wittgenstein Matters for Literary Theory2. The Work Texts Do: Toward a Phenomenology of Imagining Imaginatively3. Where Doubt Has No Purchase: The Roles of Display4. The Concept of Expression in the Arts5. Expression and Exemplification6. What Literary Theory Can Learn from Wittgenstein's Silence about Ethics7. Appreciating AppreciationNotesBibliographyIndex

"Charles Altieri has long been our most philosophical, and yet most impassioned, critic and theorist of poetry, for whom lyric poems are heroic 'acts of mind' that criticize illusion and empower the reader 'to will what the intellect sees,' while yet marrying this activity to 'lively affective intensities.' In this new book, he shows, with the assistance of Wittgenstein, how notions like imagination, feeling, attunement, and appreciation can be given a viable, post-Romantic sense adequate to the fullness of the experience of poetry."

Charles Altieri is Stageberg Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value and The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects, both from Cornell, and Postmodernisms Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts.

• 1. Why Wittgenstein Matters for Literary Theory2. The Work Texts Do: Toward a Phenomenology of Imagining Imaginatively3. Where Doubt Has No Purchase: The Roles of Display4. The Concept of Expression in the Arts5. Expression and Exemplification6. What Literary Theory Can Learn from Wittgenstein's Silence about Ethics7. Appreciating AppreciationNotesBibliographyIndex

"Charles Altieri has long been our most philosophical, and yet most impassioned, critic and theorist of poetry, for whom lyric poems are heroic 'acts of mind' that criticize illusion and empower the reader 'to will what the intellect sees,' while yet marrying this activity to 'lively affective intensities.' In this new book, he shows, with the assistance of Wittgenstein, how notions like imagination, feeling, attunement, and appreciation can be given a viable, post-Romantic sense adequate to the fullness of the experience of poetry."

Charles Altieri is Stageberg Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value and The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects, both from Cornell, and Postmodernisms Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts.

• 1. Why Wittgenstein Matters for Literary Theory2. The Work Texts Do: Toward a Phenomenology of Imagining Imaginatively3. Where Doubt Has No Purchase: The Roles of Display4. The Concept of Expression in the Arts5. Expression and Exemplification6. What Literary Theory Can Learn from Wittgenstein's Silence about Ethics7. Appreciating AppreciationNotesBibliographyIndex

"Charles Altieri has long been our most philosophical, and yet most impassioned, critic and theorist of poetry, for whom lyric poems are heroic 'acts of mind' that criticize illusion and empower the reader 'to will what the intellect sees,' while yet marrying this activity to 'lively affective intensities.' In this new book, he shows, with the assistance of Wittgenstein, how notions like imagination, feeling, attunement, and appreciation can be given a viable, post-Romantic sense adequate to the fullness of the experience of poetry."