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Why Does Literature Matter? by Frank B. Farrell (English) Hardcover Book
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- Book Title
- Why Does Literature Matter?
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- Cornell University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2004
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- English
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- Literary Criticism, Philosophy
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- Metaphysics, American / General, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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- 32 Oz
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- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Cornell University Press
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0801441803
ISBN-13
9780801441806
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30445588
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Book Title
Why Does Literature Matter?
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Metaphysics, American / General, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Genre
Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
32 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Trade
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2003-019239
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"Why Does Literature Matter? is a very intelligent, accessible, attractive, and illuminating book with wide-ranging, well-chosen literary examples and insightful analyses. Frank B. Farrell's defense of a moderate linguistic turn and exposition of a psychological-metaphysical model for understanding literature's significance are clear and convincing."-Donald Marshall, Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books, Pepperdine University, Why Does Literature Matter? is a very intelligent, accessible, attractive, and illuminating book with wide-ranging, well-chosen literary examples and insightful analyses. Frank B. Farrell's defense of a moderate linguistic turn and exposition of a psychological-metaphysical model for understanding literature's significance are clear and convincing., "Why Does Literature Matter? is a very intelligent, accessible, attractive, and illuminating book with wide-ranging, well-chosen literary examples and insightful analyses. Frank B. Farrell's defense of a moderate linguistic turn and exposition of a psychological-metaphysical model for understanding literature's significance are clear and convincing."--Donald Marshall, Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books, Pepperdine University, "Farrell, a political liberal, believes that literature has been devalued and sets out to show why it still matters. According to Farrell, the reasons are numerous, elusive, and various (economic, technological, and political, not merely a result of changes in literary-critical practice), but he addresses only those that emanate from literary study. . . . Farrell has a gift for citing interesting ideas from many sources."--K. Tololyan, Choice, September 2005, Farrell, a political liberal, believes that literature has been devalued and sets out to show why it still matters. According to Farrell, the reasons are numerous, elusive, and various (economic, technological, and political, not merely a result of changes in literary-critical practice), but he addresses only those that emanate from literary study.... Farrell has a gift for citing interesting ideas from many sources.
Dewey Edition
22
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College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
801
Synopsis
Literature matters because... it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of...|9780801441806|, "Literature matters because... it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of texts carry out these functions in so exceptional a manner that we owe it to past and future members of the species to keep such texts alive in our cultural traditions."?from Chapter One Frank B. Farrell defends a rich conception of the space of literature that retains its links to issues of self-formation and metaphysics and does not let that space collapse into just another reflection of social space. He maintains that recent literary theory has badly misread findings in the philosophy of language and the theory of subjectivity. That misreading, Farrell says, has tended to endorse ways of understanding literature that make one question why it matters at all. Farrell here opposes some recent theoretical trends and, through a mix of philosophical and literary studies, tells us why in his view literature does truly matter. Among the writers Farrell discusses are John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Amit Chaudhuri, Cormac McCarthy, James Merrill, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, and John Updike. The philosophers important to his arguments include Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, and Bernard Williams; G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ludwig Wittgenstein play roles as well. Among the literary theorists addressed are Stephen Greenblatt, Paul de Man, and Marjorie Perloff. In addition to his close readings of literary, philosophical, and critical texts, Farrell considers cultural studies and postcolonial studies more generally and speculates on the possible contributions of object-relations theory in psychology to the study of literature., "Literature matters because... it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of texts carry out these functions in so exceptional a manner that we owe it to past and future members of the species to keep such texts alive in our cultural traditions."--from Chapter One Frank B. Farrell defends a rich conception of the space of literature that retains its links to issues of self-formation and metaphysics and does not let that space collapse into just another reflection of social space. He maintains that recent literary theory has badly misread findings in the philosophy of language and the theory of subjectivity. That misreading, Farrell says, has tended to endorse ways of understanding literature that make one question why it matters at all. Farrell here opposes some recent theoretical trends and, through a mix of philosophical and literary studies, tells us why in his view literature does truly matter. Among the writers Farrell discusses are John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Amit Chaudhuri, Cormac McCarthy, James Merrill, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, and John Updike. The philosophers important to his arguments include Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, and Bernard Williams; G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ludwig Wittgenstein play roles as well. Among the literary theorists addressed are Stephen Greenblatt, Paul de Man, and Marjorie Perloff. In addition to his close readings of literary, philosophical, and critical texts, Farrell considers cultural studies and postcolonial studies more generally and speculates on the possible contributions of object-relations theory in psychology to the study of literature., "Literature matters because... it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of texts carry out these functions in so exceptional a manner that we owe it to past and future members of the species to keep such texts alive in our cultural traditions."--from Chapter One Frank B. Farrell defends a rich conception of the space of literature that retains its links to issues of self-formation and metaphysics and does not let that space collapse into just another reflection of social space. He maintains that recent literary theory has badly misread findings in the philosophy of language and the theory of subjectivity. That misreading, Farrell says, has tended to endorse ways of understanding literature that make one question why it matters at all. Farrell here opposes some recent theoretical trends and, through a mix of philosophical and literary studies, tells us why in his view literature does truly matter.Among the writers Farrell discusses are John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Amit Chaudhuri, Cormac McCarthy, James Merrill, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, and John Updike. The philosophers important to his arguments include Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, and Bernard Williams; G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ludwig Wittgenstein play roles as well. Among the literary theorists addressed are Stephen Greenblatt, Paul de Man, and Marjorie Perloff. In addition to his close readings of literary, philosophical, and critical texts, Farrell considers cultural studies and postcolonial studies more generally and speculates on the possible contributions of object-relations theory in psychology to the study of literature.
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2004
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