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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... understand the pressure to let pathos take over from ethos , or to become the sole relevant ethos , and we understand why it is so tempting to vacillate between different mean- ings of ' virtue ' . That realisation in turn leads us to ...
... understand the pressure to let pathos take over from ethos , or to become the sole relevant ethos , and we understand why it is so tempting to vacillate between different mean- ings of ' virtue ' . That realisation in turn leads us to ...
Page 69
... understand better the gen- eral problem of the relations between politics and literature . I propose in this essay , however , not an extended analysis of the present situation in the academy but rather an investigation of a very ...
... understand better the gen- eral problem of the relations between politics and literature . I propose in this essay , however , not an extended analysis of the present situation in the academy but rather an investigation of a very ...
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... understanding , but nec- essary : repetition kicks in where the understanding falters . We repeat because we do not understand . Thus formal elements win their aesthetic quality by overleaping their creator's cognitive mediation of them ...
... understanding , but nec- essary : repetition kicks in where the understanding falters . We repeat because we do not understand . Thus formal elements win their aesthetic quality by overleaping their creator's cognitive mediation of them ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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