The Death of Literature (Paper)

List of contents

Introduction - the death of literature; ideology as aesthetics - the politics of romantic and modern literature; Lady Chatterley and "Mere Chatter about Shelley" - the universities asked and the law - the moral rights of artists; plagiarism and poetics - literature as property and ethos; technology and literature - book culture and television; the battle for the word - dictionaries, deconstructors, and language engineers; the tree of knowledge - literature's presence in the social world.

Product details

• Authors: Alvin Kernan, Alvin B. Kernan
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1992
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 304 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies