{"product_id":"what-is-literature-9781405182942","title":"What is Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn essential guide to understanding literary theory and criticism in the European tradition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is Literature? A Critical Anthology \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the most fundamental question in literary studies. What is literature?' is the name of a problem that emerges with the idea of literature in European modernity. This volume offers a cross-section of modern literary theory and reflects on the history of thinking about literature as a specific form. \u003ci\u003eWhat is Literature?\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how ideas of the literary draw on the foundations of Western thought in ancient Greece and Rome, charting the emergence of modern literature in the eighteenth century, and including selections from the present state of the art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe anthology includes the work of leading writers and critics of the last two thousand years including Plato, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jacques Rancière, and many others. The book is an insightful examination of the natu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Hamburg Dramaturgy (1769) 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eG. E. Lessing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Of the Standard of Taste (1777) 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Hume\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Critique of Judgment (1790) 45\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eImmanuel Kant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795) 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriedrich Schiller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 On the Study of Greek Poetry (1797) and Philosophical Fragments (1798–1800) 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriedrich Schlegel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Lectures on Dramatic Art (1811) 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. W. Schlegel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Preface to Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems (1802) 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Wordsworth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Biographia Literaria (1817) 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSamuel Taylor Coleridge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art (1835) 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eG. W. F. Hegel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1864) 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatthew Arnold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Birth of Tragedy (1872) 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriedrich Nietzsche\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Art of Fiction (1884) 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHenry James\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Crisis of Verse (1897) 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStéphane Mallarmé\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Art as Technique (1917) 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eViktor Shklovsky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Uncanny (1919) 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSigmund Freud\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919) and The Function of Criticism (1923) 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eT. S. Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 A Room of One’s Own (1929) 265\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Storyteller (1936): Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Pierre Menard, Author of the \u003ci\u003eQuixote \u003c\/i\u003e299\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJorge Luis Borges\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 What is Literature? (1948) 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJean-Paul Sartre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Literature and the Right to Death (1948) 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaurice Blanchot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Language (1950) 349\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartin Heidegger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Trying to Understand \u003ci\u003eEndgame \u003c\/i\u003e(1958) 363\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheodor W. Adorno\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Meridian (1960) 389\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Celan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 What is an Author? (1969) 398\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichel Foucault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks\/Ways Out\/Forays (1975) 411\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHélène Cixous\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 What is a Minor Literature? (1975) 426\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Literature and Life (1993) 437\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGilles Deleuze\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 The Literary Absolute (1978) 441\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Orientalism (1978) 459\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdward W. Said\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Autobiography as De-facement (1979) 479\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul de Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Che cos’è la poesia? (1988) and Before the Law (1982) 489\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJacques Derrida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Signs Taken for Wonders (1986): Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside Delhi, May 1817 519\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomi K. Bhabha\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 What is the History of Literature? (1997) 538\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Greenblatt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999) 558\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGayatri Chakravorty Spivak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Literature for the Planet (2001) 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWai Chee Dimock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 The Politics of Literature (2003) 596\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJacques Rancière\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Close Reading in an Age of Global Writing (2013) 609\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRebecca L. Walkowitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 621\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407913787735,"sku":"9781405182942","price":30.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405182942.jpg?v=1730500940","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-is-literature-9781405182942","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}