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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... norms with which a culture's members are familiar and through which cultural products are understood . ( Singularity is therefore dependent upon what we can call reception : it does not exist outside the responses of those who encounter ...
... norms with which a culture's members are familiar and through which cultural products are understood . ( Singularity is therefore dependent upon what we can call reception : it does not exist outside the responses of those who encounter ...
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... norms in a manner that does not involve straightforward extension or extrapolation , and that pro- duces not an ... norm , every habit , every expectation involved in the use of language can be stretched , twisted , cited , thwarted , or ...
... norms in a manner that does not involve straightforward extension or extrapolation , and that pro- duces not an ... norm , every habit , every expectation involved in the use of language can be stretched , twisted , cited , thwarted , or ...
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... norms , which perversely seem to make those norms more questionable rather than more self - evident . Her case for the compassionate imagination in Hard Times sounds a lot like Grad- grind's notion of a circus . Butler , on the other ...
... norms , which perversely seem to make those norms more questionable rather than more self - evident . Her case for the compassionate imagination in Hard Times sounds a lot like Grad- grind's notion of a circus . Butler , on the other ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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