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Fiction sets you free : literature, liberty, and western culture /
In what can only be called a genuine intellectual adventure, Russell Berman raises fundamental questions long ignored by literary scholars; Why does literature command our attention at all? Why would society want to cultivate a sphere of activity devoted to the careful study of literary fiction? Wri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University Of Iowa Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Why literature matters
- Introduction
- Periodization and the canon
- Human origins and literary beginnings
- Writing and heroism
- Literacy and autonomy
- The epic and the individual
- Religion and writing
- The democracy of literature
- Imagination and economy.