The work of literature / Derek Attridge.
The work of literature / Derek Attridge.
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Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Call Numbers
G 2016/2039
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
ix, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Content type
still image
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Part I -- 1.The Singularity of Literature: A Cross-examination -- What is `literature'? -- The literary event -- Literary invention -- Terminological questions -- Media, periods, and genres -- Otherness and ethics -- The aesthetic tradition -- Sources and parallels -- Politics and ideology -- And to...
Metaphor and metaphoricity -- Metaphor and the reader -- 8.Knowing -- What do literary works know? -- Ways of knowing and thinking -- Literature's secrets -- 9.Affect -- Literary affect: McCarthy's Blood Meridian -- Affect and form -- Pleasure in reading -- 10.Hospitality -- The double law of hospit...
Publication information
Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2015.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Derek Attridge presents a fresh approach to the question of the value of literature, posing and responding to questions about the way we read and write about literature, its value to individuals and society, how it is best approached by readers and critics, and how it retains its power to give pleasure over decades and centuries.
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The work of literature / Derek Attridge.
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-317) and index.
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Call Numbers
G 2016/2039
Record Identifier
74VKVPamvbZl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVPamvbZl
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ISBN
0198733194 (hbk.)
9780198733195 (hbk.)
DDC
801.9/5
MMS ID
991023993306502626
