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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... democracy ' occurs . Central to this is the notional primacy of discussion , and specifically of oral debate , to any proper democracy . For democracy to work in an ethical fashion , it is incumbent on all participants that they strive ...
... democracy ' occurs . Central to this is the notional primacy of discussion , and specifically of oral debate , to any proper democracy . For democracy to work in an ethical fashion , it is incumbent on all participants that they strive ...
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... democracy as that based on a spatial consciousness ( democracy as applied in the agora , estab- lishing a polis ) - give way to the problem of establishing a democracy that is guided and characterised by time or by mediation . As ...
... democracy as that based on a spatial consciousness ( democracy as applied in the agora , estab- lishing a polis ) - give way to the problem of establishing a democracy that is guided and characterised by time or by mediation . As ...
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... democracy ; for a democracy such as that desired by our Left - a genuinely historical or par- ticipatory democracy - requires that specific form of inauthenticity that I called above hypocrisy . The version of authenticity espoused by ...
... democracy ; for a democracy such as that desired by our Left - a genuinely historical or par- ticipatory democracy - requires that specific form of inauthenticity that I called above hypocrisy . The version of authenticity espoused by ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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