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The Work of Literature

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Work of Literature

By University of York) Attridge Derek (Professor of English Professor of English

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About the book

What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance and their capacity to give pleasure over decades and centuries? What constitutes responsible criticism? These are some of the questions addressed in this book, which develops the arguments put forward in Derek Attridge's influential study The Singularity of Literature (2004). Beginning with anextended cross-examination in the form of an i...Show more

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9780198798903

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Oxford University Press

Published year

2017

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The Work of Literature

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Paperback

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