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The Autonomy of Literature

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Richard Lansdown

    1. James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Richard Lansdown
    Pages 1-11

  3. Institutionalism and Ideality

    • Richard Lansdown
    Pages 12-48

  4. ‘A New Spin on the Old Words’: Criticism and Philosophy

    • Richard Lansdown
    Pages 49-94

  5. ‘These Shafts Can Conquer Troy, These Shafts Alone’: Criticism and Psychoanalysis

    • Richard Lansdown
    Pages 95-144

  6. ‘A Province of Truth’: Criticism and History

    • Richard Lansdown
    Pages 145-200

  7. Four Objections

    • Richard Lansdown
    Pages 201-238

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 239-265
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About this book

In the aftermath of the theory wars, the imaginative, formal, and moral features of literature have been substantially marginalized, downgraded, and neglected. Yet for many readers such elements will always be central to the experience of reading, just as for writers they are central to the experience of writing. This provocative study argues that literature has an abundant life of its own, and reconsiders that life in the contexts provided by three influential contemporary groups of critics: some North American philosophers; some psychoanalysts; and some theorists of history.

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'It is ambitious, lucid, readable and takes on any number of big opponents. It's exciting, in a word.'

'a passionate and erudite piece of work, which grapples with issues of great importance.' - Professor John Sutherland

Authors and Affiliations

  • James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

    Richard Lansdown

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Autonomy of Literature

  • Authors: Richard Lansdown

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985182

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-42477-1Published: 01 January 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-333-98518-2Published: 31 January 2001

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 265

  • Topics: Literary Theory

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