Literature: Why It Matters

by Robert Eaglestone

Book Overview

'Now, what I want is Facts ... Facts alone are wanted in life, ' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and - despite two and a half thousand years of arguments - no one can agree what it is, or how to study it. But, argues Robert Eaglestone, it is precisely the open-ended nature of literature - that the meaning of texts and our responses to them can never be finalised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509532323
• ISBN13: 9781509532322
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.4"