The use and abuse of literature
Marjorie B. Garber, Marjorie Garber · 2011
על הספר
Even as the decline of the reading of literature, as argued by the National Endowment for the Arts, proceeds in our culture, the author, gives us a meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of literature in the digital age. What is literature, anyway? How has it been understood over time, and what is its relevance for us today? Who are its gatekeepers? Is its canonicity fixed? Why has literature been on the defensive since Plato? Does it have any use at all, or does it merely serve as an aristocratic or bourgeois accoutrement attesting to worldly sophistication and refinement of spirit? Is it, as most of us assume, good to read literature, much less study it, and what does either mean? This is a book about our culture in crisis, as well as an appreciation of popular culture. The winning aim is to reclaim literature from the margins of our personal, educational, and professional lives and restore it to the center, as a fierce, radical way of thinking.
פרטי הספר
- שנה
- 2011
- שפה
- English
- הוצאה
- Pantheon Books
- מהדורות
- 4
- עמודים
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780375424342
מקור הנתונים: Wikidata
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