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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... reading it twice in quick succession ) but often in marked ways ( as would emerge if , for instance , we could compare a per- formance in the seventeenth century with one today ) . Reading the poem as a literary work is different from ...
... reading it twice in quick succession ) but often in marked ways ( as would emerge if , for instance , we could compare a per- formance in the seventeenth century with one today ) . Reading the poem as a literary work is different from ...
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... reading experience can be as powerful as , or even more powerful than , the initial reading experience . But in fact it helps us to understand how this can happen . Since every performance of a literary work that does jus- tice to its ...
... reading experience can be as powerful as , or even more powerful than , the initial reading experience . But in fact it helps us to understand how this can happen . Since every performance of a literary work that does jus- tice to its ...
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... reading the line , is a ' torn ' reading in which ' everyone ' goes both ways at once ( and in which ' I ' perhaps functions ungrammatically both as a quasi - dative - the third recipient of the song - and as the subject of the verb ) ...
... reading the line , is a ' torn ' reading in which ' everyone ' goes both ways at once ( and in which ' I ' perhaps functions ungrammatically both as a quasi - dative - the third recipient of the song - and as the subject of the verb ) ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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