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

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? Wri...

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Main Author: Berman, Russell A., 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University Of Iowa Press, ©2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxi, 238 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.
ISBN:9781587297090
1587297094
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
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