The Question of Literature: The Place of the Literary in Contemporary TheoryElizabeth Beaumont Bissell Brings together essays by a number of distinguished theorists and academics on the changing cultural significance of literature. |
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... ACTIVITY IN POSTMODERNITY As John Guillory notes in Cultural Capital , ' the several recent crises of the literary ... activity.2 Current critical discussions generally do not address the question of the literary as practice , as ...
... ACTIVITY IN POSTMODERNITY As John Guillory notes in Cultural Capital , ' the several recent crises of the literary ... activity.2 Current critical discussions generally do not address the question of the literary as practice , as ...
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... activity have been developed by a number of contemporary literary writers and post- structuralist theorists . Roland Barthes , in ' Kafka's answer ' , and other pieces collected in Critical Essays , discusses the difference of the ...
... activity have been developed by a number of contemporary literary writers and post- structuralist theorists . Roland Barthes , in ' Kafka's answer ' , and other pieces collected in Critical Essays , discusses the difference of the ...
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... activity requires no technology , and very little capital ( des- pite the proliferation of personal computers , they ... activity of the writer to the activity of the reader practising ' aesthetic criticism ' . He differentiates ...
... activity requires no technology , and very little capital ( des- pite the proliferation of personal computers , they ... activity of the writer to the activity of the reader practising ' aesthetic criticism ' . He differentiates ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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