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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... singularity and inventiveness.2 Singularity names the quality whereby a cultural object of a certain kind differs from all others , not as a particular manifestation of general rules but as a uniqueness per- ceived as resisting or ...
... singularity and inventiveness.2 Singularity names the quality whereby a cultural object of a certain kind differs from all others , not as a particular manifestation of general rules but as a uniqueness per- ceived as resisting or ...
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... singularity that is to say , an inventive singularity as well as a singular invention . Other kinds of invention , including non - literary textual inven- tions , can possess many kinds of singularity , including conceptual , spatial ...
... singularity that is to say , an inventive singularity as well as a singular invention . Other kinds of invention , including non - literary textual inven- tions , can possess many kinds of singularity , including conceptual , spatial ...
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... singularity is itself an irreducibly singular event , it involves a fresh apprehension ( which is also a production ) of that singular- ity - which thereby becomes a new singularity . Absolute repetition , which would mean a diminution ...
... singularity is itself an irreducibly singular event , it involves a fresh apprehension ( which is also a production ) of that singular- ity - which thereby becomes a new singularity . Absolute repetition , which would mean a diminution ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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