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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... question of literature is daunting and doubtless mistaken . But this is not to say that theory should renounce such difficult questions altogether . If literature and literary studies are indeed in crisis , and if we consider it ...
... question of literature is daunting and doubtless mistaken . But this is not to say that theory should renounce such difficult questions altogether . If literature and literary studies are indeed in crisis , and if we consider it ...
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... literature and theory from the very start and at the moments both of their greatest triumphs and worst defeats.2 What then if the post - literary / post - theoretical condition were in fact an original , constitutive moment of the literary ...
... literature and theory from the very start and at the moments both of their greatest triumphs and worst defeats.2 What then if the post - literary / post - theoretical condition were in fact an original , constitutive moment of the literary ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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