The problem of literary value / / Robert J. Meyer-Lee.
This book addresses the vexed status of literary value. Unlike other approaches, it pursues neither an apologetic thesis about literature’s defining values nor, conversely, a demystifying account of those values’ ideological uses. Instead, arguing that the category of literary value is inescapable,...
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Meyer-Lee, Robert John, author. http://viaf.org/viaf/5254635 https://isni.org/isni/000000005220820X http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2002038278 The problem of literary value / Robert J. Meyer-Lee. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : digital file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda Manchester medieval literature and culture Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: The problem of literary value -- 1. Literary value and the object of Chaucer studies -- 2. A preliminary theory of literary valuing -- 3. Loose binding and its affordances -- 4. Canonicity -- 5. Interpretation -- Postscript: Losing my religion -- References -- Index. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This book addresses the vexed status of literary value. Unlike other approaches, it pursues neither an apologetic thesis about literature’s defining values nor, conversely, a demystifying account of those values’ ideological uses. Instead, arguing that the category of literary value is inescapable, it focuses pragmatically on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities, proposing how we may reconcile that category’s inevitability with our understandable wariness of its uncertainties and complicities. Toward these ends, it offers a preliminary theory of literary valuing and explores the problem of literary value in respect to the literary edition, canonicity and interpretation. Much of this exploration occurs within Chaucer studies, which, because of Chaucer’s simultaneous canonicity and marginality, provides fertile ground for thinking through the problem’s challenges. Using this subfield as a synecdoche, the book seeks to forge a viable rationale for literary studies generally. "Literary value – the worth, usefulness or importance of the literary – has been a topic of debate ever since Plato’s impugning of poetry. But from the so-called canon wars of the last century to the present, literary value has also become a perplexing source of distress. With its complicities thoroughly unmasked, literary value no longer serves as the central, self-evident justification for the study of literature. Yet no alternative consensus justification has taken its place. This book, unlike other approaches to the topic, pursues neither an apologetic thesis about the most defining values of literature nor a critique of their ideological uses. Instead, arguing that the category of literary value is ultimately inescapable, it focuses pragmatically on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities, proposing how we may reconcile that category’s inevitability with our understandable wariness of its intractable uncertainties. The book offers a preliminary theory of literary valuing and explores the problem of literary value and possible responses in respect to the literary edition, canonicity and interpretation. Much of this exploration occurs within Chaucer studies, which, because of Chaucer’s simultaneous canonicity and marginality, provides fertile ground for thinking through the problem’s challenges. The book thereby also supplies an extended reflection on the state of Chaucer studies. In extrapolating from this subfield to the field as a whole, The Problem of Literary Value seeks to forge a viable rationale for literary studies within and beyond the academy." -- Back cover. The primary market consists of scholars of Chaucer and other late medieval English literature, post-graduates studying the same, and academic libraries in the Anglophone world—anywhere that Chaucer is studied and taught, and his value, as well as literary value generally, is debated. A secondary market consists of any literary scholars and post-graduates interested in the topic of literary value, regardless of their areas of speciality. Also available in print form. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) license. Robert J. Meyer-Lee is Professor of English at Agnes Scott College. In English. Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and e-publication viewed on August 29, 2023. Literature History and criticism Theory, etc. https://isni.org/isni/0000000375840787 |1 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027228 |1 http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cn79027228 Literature Philosophy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077524 Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 Criticism and interpretation. https://isni.org/isni/0000000375840787 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027228 http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cn79027228 Criticism. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034149 Print version: Meyer-Lee, Robert John. The problem of literary value. Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2023 9781526167941 1526167948 Manchester medieval literature and culture. |
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