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The Imaginary Library : An Essay on Literature and Society / Alvin B. Kernan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Essays in Literature ; 726Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1982Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (196 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691614564
  • 9781400855667
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.5409 19
LOC classification:
  • PS379
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Place of Poetry in the World -- I. The Actual and Imaginary Library: Literature as a Social Institution -- II. Mighty Poets in their Misery Dead: The Death of the Poet in Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift -- III. "Battering the Object": The Attack on the Literary Text in Malamud's the Tenants -- IV. Reading Zemblan: The Audience Disappears in Nabokov's Pale Fire -- V. The Taking of the Moon: The Struggle of the Poetic and Scientific Myths in Norman Mailer's of a Fire on the Moon -- VI. Finding the New Thing -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: In this speculative treatment of literature as a social institution, Alvin B. Kernan explores the inability of contemporary writers and critics to maintain a literary vision in a society that denies their values and methods.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Place of Poetry in the World -- I. The Actual and Imaginary Library: Literature as a Social Institution -- II. Mighty Poets in their Misery Dead: The Death of the Poet in Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift -- III. "Battering the Object": The Attack on the Literary Text in Malamud's the Tenants -- IV. Reading Zemblan: The Audience Disappears in Nabokov's Pale Fire -- V. The Taking of the Moon: The Struggle of the Poetic and Scientific Myths in Norman Mailer's of a Fire on the Moon -- VI. Finding the New Thing -- Works Cited -- Index

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In this speculative treatment of literature as a social institution, Alvin B. Kernan explores the inability of contemporary writers and critics to maintain a literary vision in a society that denies their values and methods.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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