Fiction sets you free : literature, liberty, and western culture

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berman, Russell A., 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University Of Iowa Press, ©2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Geschichte.
Fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Romantheorie
Roman
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Why literature matters
  • Introduction
  • Periodization and the canon
  • Human origins and literary beginnings
  • Writing and heroism
  • Literacy and autonomy
  • The epic and the individual
  • Religion and writing
  • The democracy of literature
  • Imagination and economy.

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