Free Download Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature
English | 2024 | ISBN: 103246979X | 144 Pages | PDF (True) | 12 MB
Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature is a foray into current debates about the nature of the literary. What is literary? Is literarity a thing? Are there still aesthetic standards of taste? Is the category of literary aesthetics an obstacle to understanding the uses of literature? What does it mean to count the reading of literature as an experience in its own right? What would be the deficits to human experience without literature?