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The Autonomy of Literature

The Autonomy of Literature

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1349424773
ISBN13: 9781349424771
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Jan 1 2001
Pages: 265
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the aftermath of the theory wars, the imaginative, formal, and moral features of literature have been substantially marginalized, downgraded, and neglected. Yet for many readers such elements will always be central to the experience of reading, just as for writers they are central to the experience of writing. This provocative study argues that literature has an abundant life of its own, and reconsiders that life in the contexts provided by three influential contemporary groups of critics: some North American philosophers; some psychoanalysts; and some theorists of history.

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