Literature matters

This new collection of J. Hillis Miller’s essays centres on the question “why and to what end should we read, teach, and spend our time with literary and/or cultural studies?” At a time when electronic media seem to dominate the market completely, and jobs follow the money flows into electronic and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Miller, J. Hillis 1928-2021. autor (autor), Reif-Hülser, Monika, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England : Open Humanities Press 2016
2016.
Colección:Open Access e-Books
Knowledge Unlatched
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009439567706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • I. Cold heaven, cold comfort: should we read or teach literature now?
  • II. Should we read literature now, and, if so, how? Transgressing boundaries with Iser and Coetzee
  • III. A defense of literature and literary study in a time of globalization and the new tele-technologies
  • IV. Ecotechnics: ecotechnological Odradek
  • V. Theories of community: Nancy Contra Stevens
  • VI. Globalization and world literature
  • Permissions.