| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 266 pages) |
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polychrome |
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JSTOR EBA.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index. |
| Contents |
The Space of Literature -- Literary Space in McCarthy and Pynchon, Rushdie and Chaudhuri -- The Philosophical Background -- James Merrill and the Making of Literature -- The Radical Linguistic Turn in De Man and Perloff -- John Ashbery and Samuel Beckett -- New Historicism and Cultural Studies -- Literature and Regression, Benjamin, Derrida -- Literary Style and Transitional Space -- John Updike and the Scene of Literature. |
| Summary |
"Frank B. Farrell defends a rich conception of the space of literature that retains its links to issues of self-formation and metaphysics and does not let that space collapse into just another reflection of social space. He maintains that recent literary theory has badly misread findings in the philosophy of language and the theory of subjectivity. That misreading, Farrell says, has tended to endorse ways of understanding literature that make one question why it matters at all. Farrell here opposes some recent theoretical trends and, through a mix of philosophical and literary studies, tells us why in his view literature does truly matter."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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English literature. |
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Literature -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Farrell, Frank B. Why does literature matter? Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004 0801441803 (DLC) 2003019239 (OCoLC)53013713 |
| ISBN |
9781501721458 (electronic book) |
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1501721453 (electronic book) |
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0801441803 |
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9780801441806 |
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