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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... concern ) . We then have to use contrasts with how this criticism stages emotions in order to clarify what is most dynamic about the affective lives created by those authorial concerns . Within ethical criticism discourse about the ...
... concern ) . We then have to use contrasts with how this criticism stages emotions in order to clarify what is most dynamic about the affective lives created by those authorial concerns . Within ethical criticism discourse about the ...
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... concern with what does not concern one and indeed concerns no one directly . But already here in this general for- mulation of the question , what is said to be at stake and in play is writing ( or reading , still undecidably one and ...
... concern with what does not concern one and indeed concerns no one directly . But already here in this general for- mulation of the question , what is said to be at stake and in play is writing ( or reading , still undecidably one and ...
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... concerns him : on the contrary , it concerns him in no way , and perhaps concerns no one ; it is in a sense the non - concerning [ Blanchot's italics ] , but with regard to which , by the same token , the reader can no longer ...
... concerns him : on the contrary , it concerns him in no way , and perhaps concerns no one ; it is in a sense the non - concerning [ Blanchot's italics ] , but with regard to which , by the same token , the reader can no longer ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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