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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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