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Record Nr.

UNINA9910133539203321

Autore

Compagnon Antoine <1950->

Titolo

What is literature for? / / Antoine Compagnon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Collège de France, 2014

Paris, France, : Collège de France, , 2014

ISBN

9782722602755 (ebook)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (75 pages)

Collana

Leçons inaugurales du Collège de France

Disciplina

PN45

Soggetti

Languages

Literature - General

Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Inclues bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question "What is literature?", the critical and political question "What can literature do?" begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? "My confidence in the future of literature", wrote Italo Calvino, consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it". Is this still relevant to us today.