The use and abuse of literature / Marjorie Garber.
2011
PN45 .G312 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
The use and abuse of literature / Marjorie Garber.
Author
Garber, Marjorie B.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780375424342
0375424342
0375424342
Imprint
New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.
Language
English
Description
320 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PN45 .G312 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
801
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Use 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.
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.