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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... performance is the reading or reciting , aloud or silent , of a text , or my listening to someone else's reading or recit- ing of it . ) Fiction is not , therefore , identical with literature ; a fictional text may simply present ...
... performance is the reading or reciting , aloud or silent , of a text , or my listening to someone else's reading or recit- ing of it . ) Fiction is not , therefore , identical with literature ; a fictional text may simply present ...
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... performance of it , whether spoken aloud , heard in someone else's reading , read silently on the page , or recited in the mind from memory , and it is in such perfor- mances that it comes into being , each time , as a poem . Every ...
... performance of it , whether spoken aloud , heard in someone else's reading , read silently on the page , or recited in the mind from memory , and it is in such perfor- mances that it comes into being , each time , as a poem . Every ...
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... performance of its verbal singularity – is likely to demand only a minimal modification of our habitual patterns of thought and feeling , perhaps only the coming - into - consciousness , by means of a performance , of practices and ...
... performance of its verbal singularity – is likely to demand only a minimal modification of our habitual patterns of thought and feeling , perhaps only the coming - into - consciousness , by means of a performance , of practices and ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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