320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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Literature is often defined as a distinct category of writing in terms of particular formal or aesthetic attributes. Tony Bennett suggests that literature be re-defined as an institutionally defined field of textual uses and effects. Charting a course between literary aesthetics and their associated politics, Bennett engages critically with the central concerns of Marxist theoreticians such as... Read more
Preface 1.Outside Literature 2. In the Cracks of Historical Materialism 3. Literature/History 4. The Sociology of Genres 5. Severing the Aesthetic Connection 6. Really Useless 'Knowledge' 7. Aethetics and Literary Education 8. Critical Illusions 9. The Prison House of Criticism 10. Criticism and Pedagogy 11.Inside/Outside Literature
Biography
Tony Bennett
