Outside Literature

1. Auflage 1990
ISBN: 978-0-415-01094-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

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 Georg Lukacs, Fredric Jameson, Terry Eagleton and Frank Lentricchia. Outside Literature also includes a critique of post-structuralist and postmodernist methodologies which, Bennett suggests, are incapable of supporting anything more than a purely rhetorical politics. Drawing on the work of Foucault, Bennett asserts the need for a more definite enquiry into the institutional regulation of culture, in order that questions of literary and cultural politics be detached from the eviscerating generalities of literary and cultural criticism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Tony Bennett