The Imaginary Library : : An Essay on Literature and Society / / Alvin B. Kernan.
In this speculative treatment of literature as a social institution, Alvin B. Kernan explores the inability of contemporary writers and critics to maintain a literary vision in a society that denies their values and methods.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest pr...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Place of Poetry in the World -- I. The Actual and Imaginary Library: Literature as a Social Institution -- II. Mighty Poets in their Misery Dead: The Death of the Poet in Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift -- III. "Battering the Object": The Attack on the Literary Text in Malamud's the Tenants -- IV. Reading Zemblan: The Audience Disappears in Nabokov's Pale Fire -- V. The Taking of the Moon: The Struggle of the Poetic and Scientific Myths in Norman Mailer's of a Fire on the Moon -- VI. Finding the New Thing -- Works Cited -- Index |
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