The Hatred of Literature

For 2,500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society. But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary discourse paradoxically asserts the validity of what it wishes to deny. The threat to literature's continued existence, William Marx writes, is not hatred but indifference.--

Year

2018

Language

English

Publisher

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Editions

1

Pages

228

ISBN

9780674976122

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