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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... question of literature would seem to be a rhetorical one - a question , that is , of its own rhetoric , duplicitously poised between the question that literature asks ( itself synecdochic for any number of other more or less specific ...
... question of literature would seem to be a rhetorical one - a question , that is , of its own rhetoric , duplicitously poised between the question that literature asks ( itself synecdochic for any number of other more or less specific ...
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... questions without so much as recognising what they are giving up . In the first place , it is worth asking whether the question ' what ? ' is in question here at all . " The first problem to confront us is , obviously , the sub- ject ...
... questions without so much as recognising what they are giving up . In the first place , it is worth asking whether the question ' what ? ' is in question here at all . " The first problem to confront us is , obviously , the sub- ject ...
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... questions or have simple abandoned them to pursue other , allegedly more pressing political , cultural , ethnic , and / or sexual questions , it seems to me important not to follow blindly such a trend but rather to begin to question ...
... questions or have simple abandoned them to pursue other , allegedly more pressing political , cultural , ethnic , and / or sexual questions , it seems to me important not to follow blindly such a trend but rather to begin to question ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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