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000436785 1001_ $$aGarber, Marjorie B.
000436785 24514 $$aThe use and abuse of literature /$$cMarjorie Garber.
000436785 250__ $$a1st ed.
000436785 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPantheon Books,$$cc2011.
000436785 300__ $$a320 p. ;$$c25 cm.
000436785 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000436785 5050_ $$aUse and abuse -- The pleasures of the canon -- What isn't literature -- What's love got to do with it? -- So you want to read a poem -- Why literature is always contemporary -- On truth and lie in a literary sense -- Mixed metaphors -- The impossibility of closure.
000436785 520__ $$aEven 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.
000436785 650_0 $$aLiterature$$xPhilosophy.
000436785 650_0 $$aLiterature$$xAppreciation.
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