Fiction sets you free [[electronic resource] ] : literature, liberty, and western culture / / Russell A. Berman

• Autore: Berman Russell A. <1950->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University Of Iowa Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.3
• Soggetto topico: Fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-228) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Why Literature Matters; Introduction; 1. Periodization and the Canon; 2. Human Origins and Literary Beginnings; 3. Writing and Heroism; 4. Literacy and Autonomy; 5. The Epic and the Individual; 6. Religion and Writing; 7. The Democracy of Literature; 8. Imagination and Economy; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In what can only be called a genuine intellectual adventure, Russell Berman raises fundamental questions long ignored by literary scholars; Why does literature command our attention at all? Why would society want to cultivate a sphere of activity devoted to the careful study of literary fiction? Written as a tonic to what he calls the debilitating cultural relativism of contemporary literary studies, Fiction Sets You Free advances the innovative argument that literature and capitalism, rather than representing merely commercialization, actually belie a long and positive association: literary a
• Titolo autorizzato: Fiction sets you free
• ISBN: 1-58729-709-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782560903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II