The question of literature

The place of the literary in contemporary theory
Herausgeber: Beaumont-Bissell, Elizabeth

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Produktbeschreibung

Brings together essays by a number of distinguished theorists and academics on the changing cultural significance of literature.

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Produktdetails

• Angelaki Humanities
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780719057458
• ISBN-10: 0719057450
• Artikelnr.: 21201590

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell has researched modernist literature and literary theory at Exeter and Hertford Colleges, Oxford, and at Princeton University

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The literary and the ethical: difference as definition
Charles Altieri 3. Singular events: literature, invention, and performance
Derek Attridge 4. The post
literary condition: Sartre, Camus and the question(s) of literature
David Carroll 5. Literary force, institutional values
Timothy Clark 6. The literary as activity in postmodernity
Marianne DeKoven 7. The question concerning literature
Thomas Dochertty 8. Literature as regime (meditiations on an emergence)
John Frow 9. 'Fiction' and the experience of the other
Peggy Kamuf 10. Constructing Xanadu: towards a poetics of hypertext fiction
Adrian Page 11. Pretend what youlike: literature under construction
Bruce Robbins 12. Literature
repeat nothing
Robert Smith