[PDF.67le] Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society

Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society

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 | #902141 in Books |  Ivan R. Dee |  1995-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.36 x.73 x5.82l,.68 | File type: PDF | 276 pages

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||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Graff's Conflict: A Muddy Affair|By Martin Asiner|In LITERATURE AGAINST ITSELF, Gerald Graff sees literature in a war against itself. This "war" is far from a new one. How the reader sees a book is largely a matter of how a reader sees himself. The war occurs when competing ideologies attempt to claim the book as one of their own. The New Critics, Graff notes, tended to view te| |A wonderfully trenchant and illuminating inquiry...the shrewdness and cogency of his commentary are constantly arresting. (Virginia Quarterly )

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An extraordinarily important book, biting and cogent on

Since its first publication more than fifteen years ago, Literature Against Itself has achieved wide recognition as the first major critique of post-1960s cultural radicalism―and still, one of the best. In it, Gerald Graff argues that the reigning strategies for defending literature now end up by trivializing it, and he analyzes why and how they have gone wrong. He charges that our leading literary critics, whether they claim to be traditionalists or innovators,...

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