'Facts alone are wanted in life, ' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the
beginning of Dickens' Hard Times. Literature is not about facts
alone, and - despite two and a half thousand years of arguments -
no one can agree on what it is, or how to study it. But, argues
Robert Eaglestone, it is precisely the open-ended nature of
literature that makes it such a rewarding and useful subject.
Eaglestone shows that studying literature can change who you are,
turning you from a 'reader' into a 'critic' someone attuned to the
ways we make meaning in our world. Literature is a living
conversation which provides endless opportunities to rethink and
reinterpret our societies and ourselves. With examples ranging from
Sappho to Skyrim, this book shows how literature offers freer and
deeper ways of thinking and being.
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