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UNINA9910452056203321 |
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Autore |
Roche Mark William |
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Titolo |
Why literature matters in the 21st century [[electronic resource] /] / Mark William Roche |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-73039-4 |
9786611730390 |
0-300-12959-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 308 p.)) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature and morals |
Literature and technology |
Criticism |
Canon (Literature) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-291) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Sources and Translations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Value of Literature -- Chapter 3. The Value of Literary Criticism -- Chapter 4. Contemporary Models -- Chapter 5. Categories of the Technological Age -- Chapter 6. Aesthetics in the Technological Age -- Chapter 7. The Value of Literature Today -- Chapter 8. Technology, Ethics, and Literature -- Chapter 9. The Literary Canon and the Literary Critic in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Not just another jeremiad against prevailing isms and orthodoxies, Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century examines literature in its connection to virtue and moral excellence. The author is concerned with literature as the teacher of virtue. The current crisis in the humanities, Mark William Roche argues, may be traced back to the separation of art and morality. ("When the distinction between is and ought is leveled," he writes, "the power of the professions increases.")The arts and humanities concern themselves with the fate and prospects of humankind. Today that fate and those prospects are under |
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