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Tradition: A Feeling for the Literary Past: The Literary Agenda
Seth Lerer
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the sometimes rival claims of cultural history, contextualized explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by economic exigency and the ... Read more
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the sometimes rival claims of cultural history, contextualized explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by economic exigency and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Literary Agenda
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198736288
SKU
V9780198736288
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About Seth Lerer
Seth Lerer was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Wesleyan, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, and the University of California at San Diego, and is the author or editor of twelve previous books. His work has been awarded the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, the National Book ... Read more
Reviews for Tradition: A Feeling for the Literary Past: The Literary Agenda
...you will be hard pressed to find a better model of attentiveness to the matter at hand, of wide-ranging, meticulously observed appreciation, of unpedantic collegial dialogue, of lucid address.
Marshall Brown, Modern Philology
The real pleasure of Lerers essay lies in his elegant close readings and his fluid mapping of intertextual pathways. Tradition is a quietly affecting book, ... Read more
Marshall Brown, Modern Philology
The real pleasure of Lerers essay lies in his elegant close readings and his fluid mapping of intertextual pathways. Tradition is a quietly affecting book, ... Read more