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The Use and Abuse of Literature

The Use and Abuse of Literature

Garber, Marjorie

Paperback

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0307277127
ISBN13: 9780307277121
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Apr 3 2012
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

In this deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of reading in the digital age, Harvard English professor Marjorie Garber aims to reclaim literature from the periphery of our personal, educational, and professional lives and restore it to the center, as a radical way of thinking.

But what is literature anyway, how has it been understood over time, and what is its relevance for us today? Who gets to decide what the word means? Why has literature been on the defensive since Plato? Does it have any use at all, other than serving as bourgeois or aristocratic accoutrements attesting to one's worldly sophistication and refinement of spirit? What are the boundaries that separate it from its commercial instance and from other more mundane kinds of writing? Is it, as most of us assume, good to read, much less study--and what would that mean?

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