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The question of literature : the place of the literary in contemporary theory

Brings together essays by a number of distinguished theorists and academics on the changing cultural significance of literature. -- .
Print Book, English, 2002
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002
IX, 236 p. ; 22 cm.
9780719057441, 9780719057458, 0719057442, 0719057450
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1. Introduction2. The literary and the ethical: difference as definition – Charles Altieri3. Singular events: literature, invention, and performance – Derek Attridge4. The post-literary condition: Sartre, Camus and the question(s) of literature – David Carroll5. Literary force, institutional values – Timothy Clark6. The literary as activity in postmodernity – Marianne DeKoven7. The question concerning literature – Thomas Dochertty8. Literature as regime (meditiations on an emergence) – John Frow9. 'Fiction' and the experience of the other – Peggy Kamuf10. Constructing Xanadu: towards a poetics of hypertext fiction – Adrian Page11. Pretend what youlike: literature under construction – Bruce Robbins12. Literature – repeat nothing – Robert Smith -- .