Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture

by Russell A. Berman

In what can only be called a genuine intellectual adventure, Russell Berman raises fundamental questions long ignored by literary scholars; Why does literature command our attention at all? Why would society want to cultivate a sphere of activity devoted to the careful study of literary fiction? Written as a tonic to what he calls the debilitating cultural relativism of contemporary literary studies, Fiction Sets You Free advances the innovative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587296047
• ISBN13: 9781587296048
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"