The Meaning of Literature / / Timothy J. Reiss.
In this searching and wide-ranging book, Timothy J. Reiss seeks to explain how the concept of literature that we accept today first took shape between the mid-sixteenth century and the early seventeenth, a time of cultural transformation. Drawing on literary, political, and philosophical texts from...
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Reiss, Timothy J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Meaning of Literature / Timothy J. Reiss. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1992 1 online resource (408 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter I. A Poetics of Cultural Dismay -- Chapter 2. The Sense of an Ending -- Chapter 3. The Invention of Literature -- Chapter 4. Violence and the Humanity of Reason -- Chapter 5. Literature and Political Choice -- Chapter 6. Politics and Reason, Ethics and Aesthetics -- Chapter 7. Critical Quarrels and the Argument of Gender -- Chapter 8. Inventing the Tradition -- Chapter 9. Revolution in Bounds -- Chapter 10. Sublimity and the Ends of Art -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In this searching and wide-ranging book, Timothy J. Reiss seeks to explain how the concept of literature that we accept today first took shape between the mid-sixteenth century and the early seventeenth, a time of cultural transformation. Drawing on literary, political, and philosophical texts from Central and Western Europe, Reiss maintains that by the early eighteenth century divergent views concerning gender, politics, science, taste, and the role of the writer had consolidated, and literature came to be regarded as an embodiment of universal values.During the second half of the sixteenth century, Reiss asserts, conceptual consensus was breaking down, and many Western Europeans found themselves overwhelmed by a sense of social decay. A key element of this feeling of catastrophe, Reiss points out, was the assumption that thought and letters could not affect worldly reality. Demonstrating that a political discourse replaced the no-longer-viable discourse of theology, he looks closely at the functions that letters served in the reestablishment of order. He traces the development of the idea of literature in texts by Montaigne, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Cervantes, among others; through seventeenth-century writings by such authors as Davenant, Boileau, Dryden, Rymer, Anne Dacier, Astell, and Leibniz; to eighteenth-century works including those of Addison, Pope, Batteux and Hutcheson, Burke, Lessing, Kant, and Wollstonecraft. Reiss follows key strands of the tradition, particularly the concept of the sublime, into the nineteenth century through a reading of Hegel's Aesthetics.The Meaning of Literature will contribute to current debates concerning cultural dominance and multiculturalism. It will be welcomed by anyone interested in literature and in cultural studies, includingliterary theorists and historians, comparatists, intellectual historians, historical sociologists, and philosophers. 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 26. Apr 2024) Literature and history. Literature History and criticism. Literature Philosophy. Meaning (Philosophy). Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century . bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733017 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501733017 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501733017/original |
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