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Literature, Theory, and Common Sense

Hardcover • 2004 • English

Literature, Theory, and Common Sense

By Antoine Compagnon

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About the book

In the late twentieth century, the common sense approach to literature was deemed naive. Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the author, and Hillis Miller declared that all interpretation is theoretical. In many a literature department, graduate students spent far more time on Derrida and Foucault than on Shakespeare and Milton. Despite this, common sense approaches to literature--including the belief that literature represents reality and authorial intentions matter--have resisted theory wit...Show more

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9780691070421

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2004

Language

English

Original title

Literature, Theory, and Common Sense

Format

Hardcover

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