| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 167 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Literature and the Limits of Language: An Essay on Silences and Gaps / Tabish Khair -- Preface -- One. Death of the Reader of Gaps and Silences -- Two. What Can Be Said and What Cannot Be Said -- Three. Fissured Surface of Literature -- Four. What Is Written and What Is Not Written -- pt. II ̀In the Mind of the Bourgeois Reader': An Essay on Reading as an Uncomfortable Experience (Translated Partly from French by the Author) / Sebastien Doubinsky -- Preface -- One. Impermanence and Deception -- Two. Readers and Readers -- Three. Identification and Adherence -- Four. Reading the Unreadable -- Five. Last Words -- pt. III Discussion of Realism, Magic Realism, Consumerism, Publishing, Reading and Writing / Sebastien Doubinsky |
| Summary |
Reading Literature Today is a path-breaking intervention in current debates on reading and literature. This is a book of criticism that attempts to rescue literature from both the materialism of the market and the convoluted dryness of academia. The two complementary essays-one on literature and the other on reading-focus largely on texts in English and French, but also refer to other literatures. The authors propose a way of reading literature that not only synthesises some earlier tendencies and puts them in context, but also propounds a revolutionary understanding of the nature of literatur |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-160) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature -- Philosophy.
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Books and reading.
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Criticism
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literary criticism.
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criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Books and reading
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Criticism
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Literature -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Doubinsky, Sébastien, 1963-
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| ISBN |
9788132107750 |
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8132107756 |
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9788132112167 |
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8132112164 |
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