What is literature for?
Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question "What is literature?", the critical and political question "What can literature do?" begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? "My confidence...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Paris, France
Collège de France
2014
2014. |
| Colección: | Leçons inaugurales du Collège de France.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423267306719 |
| Sumario: | Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question "What is literature?", the critical and political question "What can literature do?" begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? "My confidence in the future of literature", wrote Italo Calvino, consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it". Is this still relevant to us today. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (75 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Inclues bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9782722602755 |
