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Why Does Literature Matter? /

"Literature matters because. it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of texts carry out these functions in so exceptional a m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farrell, Frank B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Space of Literature
  • 2. Literary Space in McCarthy and Pynchon, Rushdie and Chaudhuri
  • 3. The Philosophical Background
  • 4. James Merrill and the Making of Literature
  • 5. The Radical Linguistic Turn in de Man and Perloff
  • 6. John Ashbery and Samuel Beckett
  • 7. New Historicism and Cultural Studies
  • 8. Literature and Regression, Benjamin, Derrida
  • 9. Literary Style and Transitional Space
  • 10. John Updike and the Scene of Literature
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index