The Hatred of Literature

For 2,500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society. But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary discourse paradoxically asserts the validity of what it wishes to deny. The threat to literature¿s continued existence, William Marx writes, is not hatred but indifference.

Info autore

William Marx is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Paris Nanterre.

Riassunto

For 2,500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society. But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary discourse paradoxically asserts the validity of what it wishes to deny. The threat to literature’s continued existence, William Marx writes, is not hatred but indifference.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: William Marx, Marx William
• Con la collaborazione di: Nicholas Elliott (Traduzione), Elliott Nicholas (Traduzione)
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9780674976122
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97612-2
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Media Studies, History of Ideas, books, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Historiography, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, History of Western philosophy