Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing

by Peter D McDonald and Peter D. McDonald

Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing, Peter D. McDonald argues they pose as much of a challenge to the way states conceptualise language, culture, and community. Drawing on a wealth of evidence, from Victorian scholarly disputes over the identity of the English language to the constitutional debates about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198725159
• ISBN13: 9780198725152
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"