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The Meaning of Literature /
In this searching and wide-ranging book, Timothy J. Reiss seeks to explain how the concept of literature that we accept today first took shape between the mid-sixteenth century and the early seventeenth, a time of cultural transformation. Drawing on literary, political, and philosophical texts from...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter I. A Poetics of Cultural Dismay
- Chapter 2. The Sense of an Ending
- Chapter 3. The Invention of Literature
- Chapter 4. Violence and the Humanity of Reason
- Chapter 5. Literature and Political Choice
- Chapter 6. Politics and Reason, Ethics and Aesthetics
- Chapter 7. Critical Quarrels and the Argument of Gender
- Chapter 8. Inventing the Tradition
- Chapter 9. Revolution in Bounds
- Chapter 10. Sublimity and the Ends of Art
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index