The problem of literary value

The problem of literary value
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9781526167934
ISBN-13 : 152616793X
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Book Synopsis The problem of literary value by : Robert J. Meyer-Lee

Download or read book The problem of literary value written by Robert J. Meyer-Lee and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the vexed status of literary value. Unlike other approaches, it pursues neither an apologetic thesis about literature’s defining values nor, conversely, a demystifying account of those values’ ideological uses. Instead, arguing that the category of literary value is inescapable, it focuses pragmatically on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities, proposing how we may reconcile that category’s inevitability with our understandable wariness of its uncertainties and complicities. Toward these ends, it offers a preliminary theory of literary valuing and explores the problem of literary value in respect to the literary edition, canonicity and interpretation. Much of this exploration occurs within Chaucer studies, which, because of Chaucer’s simultaneous canonicity and marginality, provides fertile ground for thinking through the problem’s challenges. Using this subfield as a synecdoche, the book seeks to forge a viable rationale for literary studies generally.


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