Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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809 RAN Flesh of words : the politics of writing | 809 RIC Principals of Literary Criticism | 809 SUT Little history of literature | 809 WID Literature | 809.0028567 MUR Hamlet on the holodeck : the future of narrative in cyberspace | 809.04 BRA Modernism : a guide to European literature 1890-1930 | 809.04 SON Against interpretation and other essays |
Includes bibliographical references.
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: * offers a concise history of the canonic concept of 'literature' from its earliest origins * illustrates the kinds of theoretical issues which are currently invoked by the term 'literary' * provides a definition of the 'literary' for the twenty-first century With Literature Peter Widdowson provides a thought-provoking essay on the contemporary.
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