The Hatred of Literature
By: William Marx ; translated by Nicholas Elliott
Contributors: Elliott, Nicholas, translator
Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780674976122
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Prohibited books; History; Literature; Censorship; Literature and morals; History and criticism
Work titles: Haine de la litterature
Description: 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.--
Notes: "This book was originally published in French as La haine de la litterature (c) 2015 by Les Éditions de Minuit, 7, rue Bernard-Palissy, 74006 Paris."--title page verso. Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-217) and index.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Literature and anti-literature; title: Words from elsewhere; title: First trial: Authority; title: Second trial: Truth; title: Third trial: Morality; title: Fourth trial: Society; title: - Conclusion: The hidden face of literature.