The Values of Literary Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Values of Literary Studies write by Rónán McDonald. This book was released on 2015-11-24. The Values of Literary Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is valuable about literary studies? What is its point and purpose? In The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas, leading scholars in the field illuminate both the purpose and priorities of literary criticism. At a time when the humanities are increasingly called upon to justify themselves, this book seeks to clarify their myriad values and ideologies. Engaging the idea of literary value while at the same time remaining attuned to aesthetic, ethical, political and psychological principles, this book serves to underscore the enduring significance of literary studies in an academic climate that is ostensibly concerned with expediency and quantification. As a sophisticated examination of literary theory and criticism, The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas provides a comprehensive and hopeful view of where the discipline is now and what avenues it is likely to take from here.
The Values of Literary Studies
The Values of Literary Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Values of Literary Studies write by Rónán McDonald. This book was released on 2015-11-24. The Values of Literary Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas, leading scholars illuminate the purpose and priorities of literary criticism.
The Value of Literature
The Value of Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Value of Literature write by Rafe McGregor. This book was released on 2016-08-22. The Value of Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Value of Literature provides an original and compelling argument for the historical and contemporary significance of literature to humanity.
Values of Literature
Values of Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Values of Literature write by Hanna Meretoja. This book was released on 2014-10-29. Values of Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why we read literature and why we should read literature are age-old questions that have, in recent years, gained unprecedented scope and intensity, against the backdrop of what has been perceived as a world-wide crisis in the humanities. While scholars frequently discuss different types of value separately, in this volume values of literature are approached in the plural: we argue that the ethical, aesthetic, cognitive, affective, social, historical, and existential values of literature should be explored in connection with each other. The three parts of the book explore the relationship between ethics and aesthetics; the cognitive, affective, and social values of literature; and the construction and questioning of literary values in society. Throughout the book, we discuss the different things literature can do - ranging from affirmation of social dogmas to its capacities for self-questioning and challenging of moral certainties - through the dynamic interplay of its ethical and aesthetic, cognitive and affective aspects. Literature not only reflects and draws on the values of the historical world from which it stems; it also actively addresses, challenges, and transforms those values and explores new ways to understand value. Through these complementary processes, literature engages in its own distinctively literary forms of value inquiry.
The Practice of Value
The Practice of Value - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Practice of Value write by John Frow. This book was released on 2013. The Practice of Value available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The essays collected here ... are centrally concerned with conflicts of value: the aesthetic value that is ascribed to texts; the economic value that accrues to intellectual property; the processes of social valuation that turn waste into worth and back again; the structures of valued knowledge that shape both the disciplines of knowledge and everyday life; and the political struggles over social and cultural difference that give rise, at their most intense, to the desolation of communities and the destruction of cultures."--Publishers website
