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Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture
University of Iowa Press, 2007 Cloth: 978-1-58729-604-8 | eISBN: 978-1-58729-709-0 Library of Congress Classification PN3331.B37 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 809.3
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In what can only be called a genuine intellectual adventure, Russell Berman raises fundamental questions long ignored by literary scholars; Why does literature command our attention at all? Why would society want to cultivate a sphere of activity devoted to the careful study of literary fiction? Written as a tonic to what he calls the debilitating cultural relativism of contemporary literary studies, Fiction Sets You Free advances the innovative argument that literature and capitalism, rather than representing merely commercialization, actually belie a long and positive association: literary autonomy is a central part of modern Western culture, thoroughly intertwined with political democracy and free market capitalism. See other books on: Fiction | Liberty | Literature | Theory, etc | Western Culture See other titles from University of Iowa Press |
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Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
University of Iowa Press, 2007
Cloth: 978-1-58729-604-8
eISBN: 978-1-58729-709-0
Cloth: 978-1-58729-604-8
eISBN: 978-1-58729-709-0
In what can only be called a genuine intellectual adventure, Russell Berman raises fundamental questions long ignored by literary scholars; Why does literature command our attention at all? Why would society want to cultivate a sphere of activity devoted to the careful study of literary fiction? Written as a tonic to what he calls the debilitating cultural relativism of contemporary literary studies, Fiction Sets You Free advances the innovative argument that literature and capitalism, rather than representing merely commercialization, actually belie a long and positive association: literary autonomy is a central part of modern Western culture, thoroughly intertwined with political democracy and free market capitalism.
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