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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... production ) intended to look like a p – or , more simply , to be a p . ( The fact that the per- ceiver can always be mistaken - the p may have been produced by a ran- dom scratch , or what looks like driftwood may have been carved ...
... production ) intended to look like a p – or , more simply , to be a p . ( The fact that the per- ceiver can always be mistaken - the p may have been produced by a ran- dom scratch , or what looks like driftwood may have been carved ...
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... 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 writer creates by inventively reading , or by hearing , what it is that is ...
... 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 writer creates by inventively reading , or by hearing , what it is that is ...
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... production is also true of consumption . Like bananas , which Sartre claims , ' have a better taste when they have just been picked , works of the mind should likewise be consumed on the spot [ sur place ] .29 Sartre's view of ...
... production is also true of consumption . Like bananas , which Sartre claims , ' have a better taste when they have just been picked , works of the mind should likewise be consumed on the spot [ sur place ] .29 Sartre's view of ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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