Why Does Literature Matter? / / Frank B. Farrell.
"Literature matters because. it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of texts carry out these functions in so exceptional a m...
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Farrell, Frank B., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Why Does Literature Matter? / Frank B. Farrell. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2004 1 online resource (288 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Space of Literature -- 2. Literary Space in McCarthy and Pynchon, Rushdie and Chaudhuri -- 3. The Philosophical Background -- 4. James Merrill and the Making of Literature -- 5. The Radical Linguistic Turn in de Man and Perloff -- 6. John Ashbery and Samuel Beckett -- 7. New Historicism and Cultural Studies -- 8. Literature and Regression, Benjamin, Derrida -- 9. Literary Style and Transitional Space -- 10. John Updike and the Scene of Literature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "Literature matters because. it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of texts carry out these functions in so exceptional a manner that we owe it to past and future members of the species to keep such texts alive in our cultural traditions."—from Chapter One Frank B. Farrell defends a rich conception of the space of literature that retains its links to issues of self-formation and metaphysics and does not let that space collapse into just another reflection of social space. He maintains that recent literary theory has badly misread findings in the philosophy of language and the theory of subjectivity. That misreading, Farrell says, has tended to endorse ways of understanding literature that make one question why it matters at all. Farrell here opposes some recent theoretical trends and, through a mix of philosophical and literary studies, tells us why in his view literature does truly matter.Among the writers Farrell discusses are John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Amit Chaudhuri, Cormac McCarthy, James Merrill, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, and John Updike. The philosophers important to his arguments include Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, and Bernard Williams; G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ludwig Wittgenstein play roles as well. Among the literary theorists addressed are Stephen Greenblatt, Paul de Man, and Marjorie Perloff. In addition to his close readings of literary, philosophical, and critical texts, Farrell considers cultural studies and postcolonial studies more generally and speculates on the possible contributions of object-relations theory in psychology to the study of literature. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) American literature 20th century History and criticism Theory, etc. English literature 20th century History and criticism Theory, etc. Literature Philosophy. Literary Studies. Philosophy. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801441806 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501721458 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501721458 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501721458/original |
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