Why Literature Matters: Permanence and the Politics of Reputation

Arbery, Glenn C

ISBN 10: 1882926595 / ISBN 13: 9781882926596

Editore: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2001

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Riassunto:

We live in a time of unparalleled confusion about the role and importance of literary texts. Deconstructionist literary theory has undermined the notion that there is any genuine, lasting meaning to be found in poems and novels, and an increasingly politicized academy seeks to reduce such texts to the implicit ideologies they purportedly mask.
In the wake of the academic triumph of reductive theory and identity politics, the student and the lover of literature naturally ask: Does literature, as a distinct mode of the imagination, really matter? In fresh and engaging prose, experienced teacher, poet, and critic Glenn C. Arbery here provides a defense of literature's unique cultural and personal importance.

Informazioni sull'autore: Glenn C. Arbery is Director of the Teachers Academy and Professor of Literature at The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.

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Titolo: Why Literature Matters: Permanence and the ...
Casa editrice: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Data di pubblicazione: 2001
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: acceptable