The Work of Literature

by Derek Attridge

Book Overview

What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance and their capacity to give pleasure over decades and centuries? What constitutes responsible criticism? These are some of the questions addressed in this book, which develops the arguments put forward in Derek Attridge's influential study The Singularity of Literature (2004). Beginning with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198798903
• ISBN13: 9780198798903
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"