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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... object of knowledge is to lower it , in the eyes of many , to an unseemly equality with other , baser sorts of knowl ... object as stable , uncontroversial , self - evident , available for metaphor . Space too , they remind us , is ...
... object of knowledge is to lower it , in the eyes of many , to an unseemly equality with other , baser sorts of knowl ... object as stable , uncontroversial , self - evident , available for metaphor . Space too , they remind us , is ...
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... object of knowledge that they can never fully possess or master , an object of knowledge that , like litera- ture , sustains their work only by perpetually threatening to escape from their possession and undermine that work . Though ...
... object of knowledge that they can never fully possess or master , an object of knowledge that , like litera- ture , sustains their work only by perpetually threatening to escape from their possession and undermine that work . Though ...
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... object of its own . Like professions , academic disciplines have to demonstrate not the distinctness of their object ( it is perfectly possible to share an object with another discipline as long as the approach is different ) but the ...
... object of its own . Like professions , academic disciplines have to demonstrate not the distinctness of their object ( it is perfectly possible to share an object with another discipline as long as the approach is different ) but the ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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