
The Use and Abuse of Literature
Pages: 320
|Published: 1 Jan 2011
Description
Contents
Introduction
1. Use and abuse
2. The pleasures of The Canon
3. What isn't Literature
4. What's love got to do with it
5. So you want to read a poem
6. Why Literature is always contemporary
7. On Truth and Lie in a literary sense
8. The impossibility of closure
Notes
Introduction
1. Use and abuse
2. The pleasures of The Canon
3. What isn't Literature
4. What's love got to do with it
5. So you want to read a poem
6. Why Literature is always contemporary
7. On Truth and Lie in a literary sense
8. The impossibility of closure
Notes