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9781566630979

Literature Against Itself Literary Ideas in Modern Society

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    9781566630979

  • ISBN10:

    1566630975

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-08-01
  • Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
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Summary

The first and still one of the best critiques of post-1960s cultural radicalism, analyzing why and how the defenders of literature have gone wrong.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface to the 1995 Edition
Culture, Criticism, and Unrealityp. 1
The Myth of the Postmodern Breakthroughp. 31
The Politics of Anti-Realismp. 63
English in Americap. 103
What Was New Criticism?p. 129
How Not to Talk about Fictionsp. 151
How Not to Save the Humanitiesp. 181
Babbitt at the Abyssp. 207
Notesp. 241
Indexp. 257
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