The Problem of Literary Value - Couverture rigide

Meyer-Lee, Robert J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1526167948 ISBN 13 : 9781526167941

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert J. Meyer-Lee is Professor of English at Agnes Scott College

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526167948
• ISBN 13: 9781526167941
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
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