The meaning of literature /
Reiss, Timothy J.,1942-
Ithaca, N.Y. ; London : Cornell University Press,
1992.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-383) and index.
A poetics of cultural dismay -- The sense of an ending -- The invention of literature -- Violence and the humanity of reason -- Literature and political choice -- Politics and reason, ethics and aesthetics -- Critical quarrels and the argument of gender -- Inventing the tradition -- Revolution in bounds -- Sublimity and the ends of art.
Literature
Meaning (Philosophy)
Literature and history.
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