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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... important means by which we learn to demand of ourselves something more grand and perhaps more threatening than that we be justified in our actions , or that we be able to appreciate how others might be justified or not justified . For ...
... important means by which we learn to demand of ourselves something more grand and perhaps more threatening than that we be justified in our actions , or that we be able to appreciate how others might be justified or not justified . For ...
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... important , if not more important than the freedom necessary for the writer to write is thus the freedom of the reader to respond to the call made by the work , a freedom Sartre characterises as ' pure creative power ' : [ i ] f I ...
... important , if not more important than the freedom necessary for the writer to write is thus the freedom of the reader to respond to the call made by the work , a freedom Sartre characterises as ' pure creative power ' : [ i ] f I ...
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... important source of con- flict between them that became increasingly pronounced when it took on an explicitly political form . Even though they disagreed as to what the role of literature was or should be - in spite of what Camus ...
... important source of con- flict between them that became increasingly pronounced when it took on an explicitly political form . Even though they disagreed as to what the role of literature was or should be - in spite of what Camus ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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