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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... reader to respond to the call made by the work , a freedom Sartre characterises as ' pure creative power ' : [ i ] f I appeal to my reader so that he / she will carry the enterprise which I have begun to a successful conclusion , it is ...
... reader to respond to the call made by the work , a freedom Sartre characterises as ' pure creative power ' : [ i ] f I appeal to my reader so that he / she will carry the enterprise which I have begun to a successful conclusion , it is ...
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... reader , because it now enters the work as ' irre- ducible strangeness ' . Distance is , as it were , brought closer . What does it mean to say distance enters the work ? It means that distance is now in play , at stake , en jeu in what ...
... reader , because it now enters the work as ' irre- ducible strangeness ' . Distance is , as it were , brought closer . What does it mean to say distance enters the work ? It means that distance is now in play , at stake , en jeu in what ...
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... reader and to the reader's experience . Remarking Blan- chot's language closely , one reads that the reader falls under a new demand or necessity . This affirmation comes in the form of a question : " [ s ] ous quelle exigence nouvelle ...
... reader and to the reader's experience . Remarking Blan- chot's language closely , one reads that the reader falls under a new demand or necessity . This affirmation comes in the form of a question : " [ s ] ous quelle exigence nouvelle ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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