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Why Study Literature? /
The book presents new ways of thinking about the historical, epistemological and institutional role of literature. It aims at providing a theoretically well-founded basis for what might otherwise be considered a relatively unfounded historical fact, i.e. the fact that the teaching of literature hold...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, CT :
Distributed by ISBC,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Colophon; Contents; Introduction; Why Study Literature?; The editors; Reframing Literature; Why Literature?; Some possible answers to the question "Why Study Literature?"; Mediality; Locality & Temporality; Humanity; References; MEDIALITY; Meaning as Spectacle: Verbal Art in the Digital Age; Marie-Laure Ryan; The spectacularization of language; A technological typology of texts; Category 1: Naturally generated linear texts for print; Category 2: Naturally generated linear texts presented on the computer screen; Category 3: Naturally generated database texts for print
- Category 4: Naturally generated database texts performed on the computer Category 5: Computer generated texts for print; Category 6: Texts generated and presented by computer; Dysfunctional language; Return to functionality; Bi-medial texts; Networking; Conclusion; References; A Defence of (the Study of) Literature; or: Why (the Study of) Literature Cannot Be Replaced by Cultural Studies and Film (Studies); Werner Wolf; Literature and the study of literature
- increasingly outmoded activities?; 'Literature' in today's academic studies
- Major general functions of literature, and why literary studies cannot be replaced by Cultural Studies Qualities and functions specific to literature, or what might happen if Fahrenheit 451 became reality?; Conclusion: Literature as an irreplaceable medium and literary studies as an equally irreplaceable research and educational institution?; References; Mediality and Literature; Literature versus literature; Morten Kyndrup; The Centrifugality of Literary Studies; What is Literature?; Time; Space; Sign System; Fictionality; Enunciation; Literature's Mediality; Why Study Intermediality?
- Literary Studies in Interaction Anne-Marie Mai; Modern literary values and the literary opposition; The highly diverse literary landscape; Text Rain
- an example; Interdisciplinary collaboration; Creative reading and writing; References; HUMANITY; On the Differences between Reading and Studying Literature; Magnus Persson; Lay reading and professional reading; Linguistic competence and literary competence; Bridging the divide
- towards a third way of reading; References; Aesthetics and the New Ethics:; Theorizing the Novel in the Twenty-First Century; Dorothy J. Hale; References