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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... writing . " Writing as activity requires no technology , and very little capital ( des- pite the proliferation of personal computers , they are not necessary to writing ) yet it still commands a significant amount of cultural capital ...
... writing . " Writing as activity requires no technology , and very little capital ( des- pite the proliferation of personal computers , they are not necessary to writing ) yet it still commands a significant amount of cultural capital ...
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... writing by women across a wide spectrum of racial , ethnic , class , and sexual positionalities . The upgrading of autobiography , a previ- ously marginalised genre , into literary legitimacy is itself a more general form of this ...
... writing by women across a wide spectrum of racial , ethnic , class , and sexual positionalities . The upgrading of autobiography , a previ- ously marginalised genre , into literary legitimacy is itself a more general form of this ...
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... writing saves me from this com- placency I fear . Because I have no choice . Because I must keep the spirit of my revolt and myself alive . Because the world I create in the writing com- pensates for what the real world does not give me ...
... writing saves me from this com- placency I fear . Because I have no choice . Because I must keep the spirit of my revolt and myself alive . Because the world I create in the writing com- pensates for what the real world does not give me ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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