TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marx,William
TI  - The Hatred of Literature
SN  - 9780674982598
AV  - PN45 .M387313 2018eb
U1  - 801/.9 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Censorship
KW  - History
KW  - Literature and morals
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Prohibited books
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Literature and Anti-literature --; Words from Elsewhere --; First Trial: Authority --; Second Trial: Truth --; Third Trial: Morality --; Fourth Trial: Society --; Conclusion: The Hidden Face of Literature --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - For 2,500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society. But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary discourse paradoxically asserts the validity of what it wishes to deny. The threat to literature’s continued existence, William Marx writes, is not hatred but indifference
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674982598
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674982598
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ER  -