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The Problem of Literary Value (Hardcover)
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The Problem of Literary Value (Hardcover)
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
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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. -- .
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