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The hatred of literature /
For 2,500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society. But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary discourse paradoxically asserts the validity of what it wishes to deny. The threat to literature's continued existenc...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Francés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2018.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | For 2,500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society. But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary discourse paradoxically asserts the validity of what it wishes to deny. The threat to literature's continued existence, William Marx writes, is not hatred but indifference.-- |
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| Item Description: | "This book was originally published in French as La haine de la litterature (c) 2015 by Les Éditions de Minuit, 7, rue Bernard-Palissy, 74006 Paris."--Title page verso. Translated from the French |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674982598 0674982592 |