Elegy for Literature

by T Jeffrey and Jeffrey T. Nealon

With the seemingly unshakeable ground of literature having suffered a number of near-fatal hemorrhages due to the changing mediascape and the temblors of 2008 and 2020, the author suggests for the future of literary studies: Not Theory of Literature, but Literature as Theory. Not literary studies as putting on offer familiarity with a series of privileged literary texts and their prized cultural "meaning," nor transmuting theory into one of those...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839983957
• ISBN13: 9781839983955
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"