Uses of Literature

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Wiley, Jan 22, 2009 - Literary Criticism - 162 pages
Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature.
  • Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read
  • Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock
  • Argues for a new “phenomenology” in literary studies that incorporates the historical and social dimensions of reading
  • Includes examples of literature from a wide range of national literary traditions

About the author (2009)

Rita Felski is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia, and an Associate Editor of New Literary History. She is the author of Beyond Feminist Aesthetics, The Gender of Modernity, Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture, and Literature After Feminism. She is also editor of Rethinking Tragedy.

Bibliographic information

TitleUses of Literature
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
AuthorRita Felski
PublisherWiley, 2009
ISBN1444302809, 9781444302806
Length162 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference
Literary Criticism / General
  
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