{"product_id":"what-is-literature-isbn-9781405182942","title":"What is Literature?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn essential guide to understanding literary theory and criticism in the European tradition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is Literature? A Critical Anthology \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the most fundamental question in literary studies. ‘What is literature?’ is the name of a problem that emerges with the idea of literature in European modernity. This volume offers a cross-section of modern literary theory and reflects on the history of thinking about literature as a specific form. \u003ci\u003eWhat is Literature?\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how ideas of the literary draw on the foundations of Western thought in ancient Greece and Rome, charting the emergence of modern literature in the eighteenth century, and including selections from the present state of the art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe anthology includes the work of leading writers and critics of the last two thousand years including Plato, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jacques Rancière, and many others. The book is an insightful examination of the nature of literature, its meanings and values, functions and forms, provocations and mysteries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is Literature?\u003c\/i\u003e brings together in one volume influential and intriguing essays that show our enduring fascination with the idea of literature. This important guide:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains a broad selection of the most significant texts on the topic of literature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes leading writers from ancient times to the most recent thinkers on literature and criticism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEncourages readers to reflect on the varied meanings of “literature”\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is Literature? A Critical Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique collection of texts that will appeal to every student and scholar of literature and literary criticism in the European tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Hamburg Dramaturgy (1769) 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eG. E. Lessing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Of the Standard of Taste (1777) 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Hume\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Critique of Judgment (1790) 45\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eImmanuel Kant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795) 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriedrich Schiller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 On the Study of Greek Poetry (1797) and Philosophical Fragments (1798–1800) 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriedrich Schlegel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Lectures on Dramatic Art (1811) 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. W. Schlegel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Preface to Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems (1802) 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Wordsworth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Biographia Literaria (1817) 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSamuel Taylor Coleridge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art (1835) 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eG. W. F. Hegel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1864) 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatthew Arnold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Birth of Tragedy (1872) 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriedrich Nietzsche\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Art of Fiction (1884) 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHenry James\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Crisis of Verse (1897) 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStéphane Mallarmé\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Art as Technique (1917) 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eViktor Shklovsky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Uncanny (1919) 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSigmund Freud\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919) and The Function of Criticism (1923) 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eT. S. Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 A Room of One’s Own (1929) 265\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Storyteller (1936): Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Pierre Menard, Author of the \u003ci\u003eQuixote \u003c\/i\u003e299\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJorge Luis Borges\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 What is Literature? (1948) 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJean-Paul Sartre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Literature and the Right to Death (1948) 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaurice Blanchot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Language (1950) 349\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartin Heidegger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Trying to Understand \u003ci\u003eEndgame \u003c\/i\u003e(1958) 363\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheodor W. Adorno\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Meridian (1960) 389\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Celan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 What is an Author? (1969) 398\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichel Foucault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks\/Ways Out\/Forays (1975) 411\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHélène Cixous\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 What is a Minor Literature? (1975) 426\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Literature and Life (1993) 437\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGilles Deleuze\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 The Literary Absolute (1978) 441\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Orientalism (1978) 459\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdward W. Said\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Autobiography as De-facement (1979) 479\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul de Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Che cos’è la poesia? (1988) and Before the Law (1982) 489\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJacques Derrida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Signs Taken for Wonders (1986): Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside Delhi, May 1817 519\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomi K. Bhabha\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 What is the History of Literature? (1997) 538\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Greenblatt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999) 558\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGayatri Chakravorty Spivak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Literature for the Planet (2001) 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWai Chee Dimock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 The Politics of Literature (2003) 596\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJacques Rancière\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Close Reading in an Age of Global Writing (2013) 609\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRebecca L. Walkowitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 621\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARK ROBSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e??\u003c\/b\u003eis the Chair of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Dundee, Scotland, where he also teaches philosophy and visual culture. He founded and is the Director of the Centre for Critical and Creative Cultures at Dundee, and is author and editor of several books including \u003ci\u003eTheatre \u0026amp; Death, The Sense of Early Modern Writing\u003c\/i\u003e and (with James Loxley) \u003ci\u003eShakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative.\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN ESSENTIAL VOLUME ON LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of the most influential thinkers and writers in fields as diverse as literary criticism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology and history have posed the question: \"What is literature?\". Attempts to define literature lead to further questions: What is literature for? Who decides whether a written work is literature? What are the criteria? What sets literary language apart from ordinary language?\u003ci\u003e What is Literature? A Critical Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e??addresses these and other fundamental questions in literary studies, bringing together essays spanning more than two centuries to explore our conceptions of literature and its meanings, values, and purposes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the Western literary tradition, this volume includes an introduction which discusses literature's foundations in ancient Greek philosophy, explores the emergence of literature as a distinct form in the eighteenth century, and provides insights into modern literary theory. The anthology features essays by figures central to the definition of literature as an idea, including Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot, and a selection of those who have called that idea into question, such as Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Jacques Rancière. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering a carefully curated examination of the nature of literature, this book: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents diverse perspectives and reflections on the meanings of \"literature\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a wide-ranging selection of significant texts on literary theory\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes essays by contemporary voices on literature and criticism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures many complete and substantial selections, rather than excerpts.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eA unique and thoughtful approach for understanding the idea of literature, \u003ci\u003eWhat is Literature? A Critical Anthology??\u003c\/i\u003eis an important resource for students and scholars of literature and literary criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990478733541,"sku":"NP9781405182942","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405182942.jpg?v=1761787989","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/what-is-literature-isbn-9781405182942","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}