The death of literature /
Exploring literature's 'crisis of confidence' and relating the death of literature to a variety of agents - among them television, computer technology, legal issues of copyright and plagiarism, faculty politics and literary criticism itself - this book looks at how to bring about a re...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1990.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Ideology as aesthetics: the politics of romantic and modern literature
- 2. Lady Chatterly and "Mere chatter about Shelley": the university asked to define literature
- 3. Authors as rentiers, readers as proletariat, critics as revolutionaries
- 4. Literature and the law: the moral rights of artists
- 5. Plagiarism and poetics: literature as property and ethos
- 6. Technology and literature: book culture and television culture
- 7. The battle for the word: dictionaries, deconstructors, and language engineers
- 8. The tree of knowledge: literature's presence in the social world.