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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... modes of consciousness that it rejects . * ( 5 ) Offering a rough phenomenology of lyricism may provide the best concrete index of the basic values that attach to literariness in many of our reading practices . For there is no better ...
... modes of consciousness that it rejects . * ( 5 ) Offering a rough phenomenology of lyricism may provide the best concrete index of the basic values that attach to literariness in many of our reading practices . For there is no better ...
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... modes and recreating those grids.18 Reception is therefore itself a mode of production : in performing a work I give it a singular existence as an event . Production , by the same token , can be said to be a mode of recep- tion : the ...
... modes and recreating those grids.18 Reception is therefore itself a mode of production : in performing a work I give it a singular existence as an event . Production , by the same token , can be said to be a mode of recep- tion : the ...
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... modes of emergence of the literary - as epis- temological reflexivity ; as sociological reflexivity ; and as a shift from mun- dane time to the ecstatic moment – validly affirms a mode of its being ( which is to say a mode of reading ...
... modes of emergence of the literary - as epis- temological reflexivity ; as sociological reflexivity ; and as a shift from mun- dane time to the ecstatic moment – validly affirms a mode of its being ( which is to say a mode of reading ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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