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035			_a(DE-B1597)9781501733017
035			_a(DE-B1597)515101
035			_a(OCoLC)1100893686
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aPN45 _b.R457 1992
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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aReiss, Timothy J. _eautore
245	1	4	_aThe Meaning of Literature / _cTimothy J. Reiss.
264		1	_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©1992
300			_a1 online resource (408 p.)
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction -- _tChapter I. A Poetics of Cultural Dismay -- _tChapter 2. The Sense of an Ending -- _tChapter 3. The Invention of Literature -- _tChapter 4. Violence and the Humanity of Reason -- _tChapter 5. Literature and Political Choice -- _tChapter 6. Politics and Reason, Ethics and Aesthetics -- _tChapter 7. Critical Quarrels and the Argument of Gender -- _tChapter 8. Inventing the Tradition -- _tChapter 9. Revolution in Bounds -- _tChapter 10. Sublimity and the Ends of Art -- _tEpilogue -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aIn this searching and wide-ranging book, Timothy J. Reiss seeks to explain how the concept of literature that we accept today first took shape between the mid-sixteenth century and the early seventeenth, a time of cultural transformation. Drawing on literary, political, and philosophical texts from Central and Western Europe, Reiss maintains that by the early eighteenth century divergent views concerning gender, politics, science, taste, and the role of the writer had consolidated, and literature came to be regarded as an embodiment of universal values.During the second half of the sixteenth century, Reiss asserts, conceptual consensus was breaking down, and many Western Europeans found themselves overwhelmed by a sense of social decay. A key element of this feeling of catastrophe, Reiss points out, was the assumption that thought and letters could not affect worldly reality. Demonstrating that a political discourse replaced the no-longer-viable discourse of theology, he looks closely at the functions that letters served in the reestablishment of order. He traces the development of the idea of literature in texts by Montaigne, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Cervantes, among others; through seventeenth-century writings by such authors as Davenant, Boileau, Dryden, Rymer, Anne Dacier, Astell, and Leibniz; to eighteenth-century works including those of Addison, Pope, Batteux and Hutcheson, Burke, Lessing, Kant, and Wollstonecraft. Reiss follows key strands of the tradition, particularly the concept of the sublime, into the nineteenth century through a reading of Hegel's Aesthetics.The Meaning of Literature will contribute to current debates concerning cultural dominance and multiculturalism. It will be welcomed by anyone interested in literature and in cultural studies, includingliterary theorists and historians, comparatists, intellectual historians, historical sociologists, and philosophers.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650		0	_aLiterature and history.
650		0	_aLiterature _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aLiterature _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aMeaning (Philosophy).
650		4	_aLiterary Studies.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century . _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733017
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501733017
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501733017/original
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