The Hatred of Literature

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:
William Marx
ISBN:
9780674976122
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Pages:
240
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-07-12
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2018
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
History, Language Arts, Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Social Studies