| Literature Contributor(s): Widdowson, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415169143 ISBN-13: 9780415169141 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1998 Annotation: "Literature," the latest volume in the highly successful "New Critical Idiom" series, is at once a compact mine of information about the development and more recent discrediting of the concept of "literature," and a reflection on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Comprehensive in scope, it offers a concise history of the consitution of a canonic concept of "literature" from its earliest origins to the orthodoxies that occurred through the later nineteenth-century to the middle of the twentieth. It also traces its dismantling from the late-60s onward. Finally, the book attemps to recuperate a notion of "the literary" by way of a series of readings of diverse texts. It is an excellent primer for anyone who loves the written word. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Reference |
| Dewey: 809 |
| LCCN: 98035341 |
| Lexile Measure: 1530 |
| Series: New Critical Idiom (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 4.96" W x 7.79" (0.57 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Literature: |