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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... becomes difficult , let alone evaluating or defining it . And the lack of such an agreement also helps to explain ... become more limited and tentative , and certain obvious prejudices have positively been overcome . The persistence ...
... becomes difficult , let alone evaluating or defining it . And the lack of such an agreement also helps to explain ... become more limited and tentative , and certain obvious prejudices have positively been overcome . The persistence ...
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... become the known , otherness has become sameness , singularity has become generality . Absolute alterity , as long as it remains absolute , cannot be apprehended at all . And if the hith- erto unthinkable becomes the eminently thinkable ...
... become the known , otherness has become sameness , singularity has become generality . Absolute alterity , as long as it remains absolute , cannot be apprehended at all . And if the hith- erto unthinkable becomes the eminently thinkable ...
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... become much closer . History could be woven into the text . At its most extreme , literature might cease to exist as an autonomous imaginary realm . - The opportunities offered by hypertext fiction at the moment – whether adaptations ...
... become much closer . History could be woven into the text . At its most extreme , literature might cease to exist as an autonomous imaginary realm . - The opportunities offered by hypertext fiction at the moment – whether adaptations ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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