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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... voices of those who , for whatever reasons , do not figure in the polis , the excluded or ' those outside'.10 It is by giving voice to those dispossessed of the usual forms of legitimised speech that we can enact an ethical version of ...
... voices of those who , for whatever reasons , do not figure in the polis , the excluded or ' those outside'.10 It is by giving voice to those dispossessed of the usual forms of legitimised speech that we can enact an ethical version of ...
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... voice derives from this its aphony ... Although it may well borrow the voice of a judiciously chosen character , or even create the hybrid function of mediator ( the voice that ruins all medi- ation ) , it is always different from what ...
... voice derives from this its aphony ... Although it may well borrow the voice of a judiciously chosen character , or even create the hybrid function of mediator ( the voice that ruins all medi- ation ) , it is always different from what ...
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... voice – the narrative voice - that I hear , perhaps rashly , perhaps rightly , in the narrative by Marguerite Duras that I mentioned [ Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein ] ' . The note then proceeds to justify in a few lines this reference ...
... voice – the narrative voice - that I hear , perhaps rashly , perhaps rightly , in the narrative by Marguerite Duras that I mentioned [ Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein ] ' . The note then proceeds to justify in a few lines this reference ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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