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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Essays in Literature ;
726 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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