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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 23
Page 42
... represented in the initial situation . For in our experiences of the lyrical at least , the will often emerges less ... represent the good . For the willing elicited by imaginative power occupies a different plane : it can accompany a ...
... represented in the initial situation . For in our experiences of the lyrical at least , the will often emerges less ... represent the good . For the willing elicited by imaginative power occupies a different plane : it can accompany a ...
Page 81
... represent critical alternatives to his- tory and politics that are also necessary for freedom , necessary in fact ... represents the hope - even if it does not provide the means of putting an end to the conditions respon- sible for ...
... represent critical alternatives to his- tory and politics that are also necessary for freedom , necessary in fact ... represents the hope - even if it does not provide the means of putting an end to the conditions respon- sible for ...
Page 132
... represented . It is vital to represent them ' . This much - cited dictée from Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire might usefully be placed alongside a lengthier passage from that same work in which Marx argues that ... the democrat , because he ...
... represented . It is vital to represent them ' . This much - cited dictée from Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire might usefully be placed alongside a lengthier passage from that same work in which Marx argues that ... the democrat , because he ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic argue Attridge become Blanchot Burroughs Burroughs's Butler Camus canon claims concept creative crisis cultural studies cut-up/fold-in death drive death instincts defined democracy Derek Attridge Derrida différance discipline discourse distance distinction Eagleton emotions erary essay ethical criticism event example existence fact fiction force freedom Freud Fugitive Pieces function human hypertext Ibid ical ideology imagination institution invention Jacques Derrida judgement kind language linguistic liter literary experience literary studies literary texts literary theory literature's Mal Waldron means metafiction modern modes moral Naked Lunch narrative norms notion Nova Express novel Nussbaum object obsession Oedipa Peggy Kamuf perhaps philosophy pleasure pleasure principle poem poetic poetry political possible postmodern practice precisely principle production prose psyche question of literature reader reading relation repetition represent rhetorical Sartre Sartre's sense simply singularity social specific textual theorists tion trans voice words writing