What is Literature for?

Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question “What is literature?”, the critical and political question “What can literature do?” begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? “My confidence in the future of literatu...

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description Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question “What is literature?”, the critical and political question “What can literature do?” begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? “My confidence in the future of literature”, wrote Italo Calvino, consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it”. Is this still relevant to us today?
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-626262022-01-31T16:55:00Z What is Literature for? Antoine Compagnon literature literary theory literary criticism French literature history of literature Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question “What is literature?”, the critical and political question “What can literature do?” begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? “My confidence in the future of literature”, wrote Italo Calvino, consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it”. Is this still relevant to us today? 2021-02-12T08:29:46Z 2021-02-12T08:29:46Z 2014-02-27 14:16:29 2014 book 15702 9782722602755 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/62626 eng image/jpeg http://www.7switch.com/en/ebook/9782722602755 http://www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/9782722602755 http://books.openedition.org/cdf/3309 Collège de France 1aaf812f-8953-49d7-becb-c2b3d34938a7 9782722602755 open access
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