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Eaglestone, Robert

 
9781509532322: Literature: Why It Matters
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1509532323 ISBN 13: 9781509532322
Verlag: Polity, 2019

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‘Facts alone are wanted in life,’ exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens’ Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and – despite two and a half thousand years of arguments – no one can agree on what it is, or how to study it. But, argues Robert Eaglestone, it is precisely the open-ended nature of literature that makes it such a rewarding and useful subject.

Eaglestone shows that studying literature can change who you are, turning you from a ‘reader’ into a ‘critic’: someone attuned to the ways we make meaning in our world. Literature is a living conversation which provides endless opportunities to rethink and reinterpret our societies and ourselves. With examples ranging from Sappho to Skyrim, this book shows how literature offers freer and deeper ways of thinking and being.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509532323
ISBN 13 
9781509532322
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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