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Brings together essays by a number of distinguished theorists and academics on the changing cultural significance of literature.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The literary and the ethical: difference as definition – Charles Altieri
3. Singular events: literature, invention, and performance – Derek Attridge
4. The post-literary condition: Sartre, Camus and the question(s) of literature – David Carroll
5. Literary force, institutional values – Timothy Clark
6. The literary as activity in postmodernity – Marianne DeKoven
7. The question concerning literature – Thomas Dochertty
8. Literature as regime (meditiations on an emergence) – John Frow
9. 'Fiction' and the experience of the other – Peggy Kamuf
10. Constructing Xanadu: towards a poetics of hypertext fiction – Adrian Page
11. Pretend what youlike: literature under construction – Bruce Robbins
12. Literature – repeat nothing – Robert Smith

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 10/31/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719057458, 978-0719057458
      ISBN10: 0719057450

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Brings together essays by a number of distinguished theorists and academics on the changing cultural significance of literature.

      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction
      2. The literary and the ethical: difference as definition – Charles Altieri
      3. Singular events: literature, invention, and performance – Derek Attridge
      4. The post-literary condition: Sartre, Camus and the question(s) of literature – David Carroll
      5. Literary force, institutional values – Timothy Clark
      6. The literary as activity in postmodernity – Marianne DeKoven
      7. The question concerning literature – Thomas Dochertty
      8. Literature as regime (meditiations on an emergence) – John Frow
      9. 'Fiction' and the experience of the other – Peggy Kamuf
      10. Constructing Xanadu: towards a poetics of hypertext fiction – Adrian Page
      11. Pretend what youlike: literature under construction – Bruce Robbins
      12. Literature – repeat nothing – Robert Smith

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