Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415169134 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 240 str.

Peter Widdowson

Opis

This volume provides an overview of the history of literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literature might mean for us today. Coverage includes: a concise history of the canonic concept of literature from its earliest origins; theoretical issues which are invoked by the term literary; the potential uses of the literary within an pre-millennial culture.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 what is ‘Literature’?; Chapter 2 What has ‘Literature’ Been?; Chapter 3 What has Happened to ‘Literature’?; Chapter 4 What is ‘The Literary’?; Chapter 5 The Uses of ‘The Literary’; Chapter 6 Watch this Space;

O autorze

Peter Widdowson is Professor of Literature at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. He edited Re-Reading English, and is the author of books on Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster and contemporary literary theory.