The Hatred of Literature / / William Marx.
For 2,500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society. But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary discourse paradoxically asserts the validity of what it wishes to deny. The threat to literature’s continued existence, Wi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Literature and Anti-literature
- Words from Elsewhere
- First Trial: Authority
- Second Trial: Truth
- Third Trial: Morality
- Fourth Trial: Society
- Conclusion: The Hidden Face of Literature
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index