The hatred of literature
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The hatred of literature
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018
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La haine de la littérature
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Summary: For 2,500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society. But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary discourse paradoxically asserts the validity of what it wishes to deny. The threat to literature's continued existence, William Marx writes, is not hatred but indifference-- Provided by publisher
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