Meaning of Literature / Reiss Timothy J.
In this searching and wide-ranging book, Timothy J. Reiss seeks to explain how the concept of literature that we accept today first took shape between the mid-sixteenth century and the early seventeenth, a time of cultural transformation. Drawing on literary, political, and philosophical texts from...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- The Meaning of Literature; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A Poetics of Cultural Dismay; 2 The Sense of an Ending; 3 The Invention of Literature; 4 Violence and the Humanity of Reason; 5 Literature and Political Choice; 6 Politics and Reason, Ethics and Aesthetics; 7 Critical Quarrels and the Argument of Gender; 8 Inventing the Tradition; 9 Revolution in Bounds; 10 Sublimity and the Ends of Art; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index