The Question of Literature: The Place of the Literary in Contemporary Theory

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Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell
Manchester University Press, 2002 - Literary Criticism - 236 pages
Brings together essays by a number of distinguished theorists and academics on the changing cultural significance of literature.

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Contents

Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell
1
difference as definition Charles Altieri
19
literature invention and performance Derek Attridge
48
Sartre Camus and the questions of literature David Carroll
66
Literary force institutional values Timothy Clark
91
The literary as activity in postmodernity Marianne DeKoven
105
The question concerning literature Thomas Docherty
126
Literature as regime meditations on an emergence John Frow
142
Fiction and the experience of the other Peggy Kamuf
156
towards a poetics of hypertext fiction Adrian Page
174
literature under construction Bruce Robbins
190
Literature repeat nothing Robert Smith
207
Index
233
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Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell has researched modernist literature and literary theory at Exeter and Hertford Colleges, Oxford, and at Princeton University

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TitleThe Question of Literature: The Place of the Literary in Contemporary Theory
Angelaki Humanities Series, ISSN 1759-5282
The Question of Literature: The Place of the Literary in Contemporary Theory, Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell
EditorElizabeth Beaumont Bissell
PublisherManchester University Press, 2002
ISBN0719057450, 9780719057458
Length236 pages
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Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
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