登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
Fiction Sets You Free
Russell A. Berman
其他書名
Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture
出版University of Iowa Press, 2007-09
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism & Collections / History & CriticismLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshTRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary
ISBN15872970949781587297090
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BWB2RI7lhpoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋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 argument that literature and capitalism, rather than representing merely commercialization, actually belie a long and positive association: literary autonomy is a central part of modern Western culture, thoroughly intertwined with political democracy and free market capitalism.