UID:
edocfu_9959244877502883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 167 p.)
ISBN:
81-321-1923-1
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81-321-1216-4
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1-283-23552-8
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9786613235527
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81-321-0775-6
Content:
Reading Literature Today is a path-breaking intervention in current debates on reading and literature. This is a book of criticism that attempts to rescue literature from both the materialism of the market and the convoluted dryness of academia. The two complementary essays-one on literature and the other on reading-focus largely on texts in English and French, but also refer to other literatures. The authors propose a way of reading literature that not only synthesises some earlier tendencies and puts them in context, but also propounds a revolutionary understanding of the nature of literatur
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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pt. 1. Literature and the limits of language : an essay on silence and gaps -- pt. 2. 'In the mind of the bourgeois reader' : an essay on reading as an uncomfortable experience (translated partly from French by the author) -- pt. 3. A discussion of realism, magic realism, consumerism, publishing, reading and writing.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 81-321-0688-1
Language:
English
