An essential guide to understanding literary theory and criticism
in the European tradition What is Literature? A Critical Anthology
explores the most fundamental question in literary studies. 'What
is literature?' is the name of a problem that emerges with the idea
of literature in European modernity. This volume offers a
cross-section of modern literary theory and reflects on the history
of thinking about literature as a specific form. What is
Literature? reveals how ideas of the literary draw on the
foundations of Western thought in ancient Greece and Rome, charting
the emergence of modern literature in the eighteenth century, and
including selections from the present state of the art. The
anthology includes the work of leading writers and critics of the
last two thousand years including Plato, Henry James, Virginia
Woolf, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jacques Ranciere,
and many others. The book is an insightful examination of the
nature of literature, its meanings and values, functions and forms,
provocations and mysteries. What is Literature? brings together in
one volume influential and intriguing essays that show our enduring
fascination with the idea of literature. This important guide:
Contains a broad selection of the most significant texts on the
topic of literature Includes leading writers from ancient times to
the most recent thinkers on literature and criticism Encourages
readers to reflect on the varied meanings of "literature" What is
Literature? A Critical Anthology is a unique collection of texts
that will appeal to every student and scholar of literature and
literary criticism in the European tradition.
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