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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| Superior document: | Manchester medieval literature and culture |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) :; digital file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.