What is Literature for? inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 30 November 2006

Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question 2What is literature?3, the critical and political question 2What can literature do?3 begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? 2My confidence in the future of literatu...

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Autor principal: Compagnon, Antoine, 1950- (-)
Otros Autores: Libbrecht, Liz
Formato: Otros
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : Collège de France 2014.
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Sumario:Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question 2What is literature?3, the critical and political question 2What can literature do?3 begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? 2My confidence in the future of literature3, wrote Italo Calvino, consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it3. Is this still relevant to us today?
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ISBN:9782722602755