The Autonomy of Literature - Softcover

Lansdown, R.

 
9781349424771: The Autonomy of Literature
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1349424773 ISBN 13: 9781349424771
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Synopsis

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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Review

'It is ambitious, lucid, readable and takes on any number of big opponents. It's exciting, in a word.'

'a passionate and erudite piece of work, which grapples with issues of great importance.' - Professor John Sutherland

About the Author

Richard Lansdown is a Lecturer in English at James Cook University, Cairns.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1349424773
ISBN 13 
9781349424771
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
273

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