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What is Literature? : A Critical Anthology, Paperback / softback Book

What is Literature? : A Critical Anthology Paperback / softback

Edited by Mark Robson

Paperback / softback

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An essential guide to understanding literary theory and criticism in the European tradition What is Literature?

A Critical Anthology explores the most fundamental question in literary studies. ‘What is literature?’ is the name of a problem that emerges with the idea of literature in European modernity.

This volume offers a cross-section of modern literary theory and reflects on the history of thinking about literature as a specific form.

What is Literature? reveals how ideas of the literary draw on the foundations of Western thought in ancient Greece and Rome, charting the emergence of modern literature in the eighteenth century, and including selections from the present state of the art. The anthology includes the work of leading writers and critics of the last two thousand years including Plato, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jacques Rancière, and many others.

The book is an insightful examination of the nature of literature, its meanings and values, functions and forms, provocations and mysteries. What is Literature? brings together in one volume influential and intriguing essays that show our enduring fascination with the idea of literature.

This important guide: Contains a broad selection of the most significant texts on the topic of literatureIncludes leading writers from ancient times to the most recent thinkers on literature and criticismEncourages readers to reflect on the varied meanings of “literature” What is Literature?

A Critical Anthology is a unique collection of texts that will appeal to every student and scholar of literature and literary criticism in the European tradition.

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