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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Timothy J., Reiss (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Literature and history.
Literature > History and criticism.
Literature > Philosophy.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Littérature et histoire.
Littérature > Histoire et critique.
Signification (Philosophie)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Modern > 16th Century .
Literature
Literature and history
Literature > Philosophy
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Meaning of Literature; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A Poetics of Cultural Dismay; 2 The Sense of an Ending; 3 The Invention of Literature; 4 Violence and the Humanity of Reason; 5 Literature and Political Choice; 6 Politics and Reason, Ethics and Aesthetics; 7 Critical Quarrels and the Argument of Gender; 8 Inventing the Tradition; 9 Revolution in Bounds; 10 Sublimity and the Ends of Art; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

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