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The use and abuse of literature /

Garber, Marjorie B.

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Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The use and abuse of literature // Marjorie Garber.
Author:	Garber, Marjorie B.
Published:	New York :Pantheon Books, : c2011.,
Description:	ix, 320 p. ;25 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Use and abuse -- The pleasures of the canon -- What isn't literature -- What's love got to do with it? -- So you want to read a poem -- Why literature is always contemporary -- On truth and lie in a literary sense -- Mixed metaphors -- The impossibility of closure.
Subject:	Literature - Philosophy. -
ISBN:	9780375424342 (hbk.) :

The use and abuse of literature /
Garber, Marjorie B.

The use and abuse of literature /Marjorie Garber. - 1st ed. - New York :Pantheon Books,c2011. - ix, 320 p. ;25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Use and abuse -- The pleasures of the canon -- What isn't literature -- What's love got to do with it? -- So you want to read a poem -- Why literature is always contemporary -- On truth and lie in a literary sense -- Mixed metaphors -- The impossibility of closure.

Even as the decline of the reading of literature, as argued by the National Endowment for the Arts, proceeds in our culture, the author, gives us a meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of literature in the digital age. What is literature, anyway? How has it been understood over time, and what is its relevance for us today? Who are its gatekeepers? Is its canonicity fixed? Why has literature been on the defensive since Plato? Does it have any use at all, or does it merely serve as an aristocratic or bourgeois accoutrement attesting to worldly sophistication and refinement of spirit? Is it, as most of us assume, good to read literature, much less study it, and what does either mean? This is a book about our culture in crisis, as well as an appreciation of popular culture. The winning aim is to reclaim literature from the margins of our personal, educational, and professional lives and restore it to the center, as a fierce, radical way of thinking.

ISBN: 9780375424342 (hbk.) :US28.95

LCCN: 2010035417Subjects--Topical Terms:

523173
Literature
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: PN45 / .G312 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 801

The use and abuse of literature /
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