The Problem of Literary Value (Hardcover)

This book addresses the vexed status of literary value. Unlike other approaches, it pursues neither an apologetic thesis about literature's defining values nor, conversely, a demystifying account of those values' ideological uses. Instead, arguing that the category of literary value is inescapable, it focuses pragmatically on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities, proposing how we may reconcile that category's inevitability with our understandable wariness of its uncertainties and complicities. Toward these ends, it offers a preliminary theory of literary valuing and explores the problem of literary value in respect to the literary edition, canonicity and interpretation. Much of this exploration occurs within Chaucer studies, which, because of Chaucer's simultaneous canonicity and marginality, provides fertile ground for thinking through the problem's challenges. Using this subfield as a synecdoche, the book seeks to forge a viable rationale for literary studies generally. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Release date:	May 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Robert J. Meyer-Lee (Margaret W. Pepperdene Distinguished Scholar in Residence)
Dimensions:	216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-6794-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	1-5261-6794-8
Barcode:	9781526167941

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