The Work of Fire (Meridian : Crossing Aesthetics)
This is a collection of 22 essays originally issued as review essays in literary journals. Certain themes return again and again: the relation of literature and language to death; the significance of repetition; the historical, personal, and social function of literature; and perhaps most...
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This is a collection of 22 essays originally issued as review essays in literary journals. Certain themes return again and again: the relation of literature and language to death; the significance of repetition; the historical, personal, and social function of literature; and perhaps most important, simply the question, What is at stake in the fact that something such as art or literature exists?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780804724937 (0804724938)
Publish date: March 1st 1995
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Pages no: 360
Edition language: English
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