Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture

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In what can only be called a genuine intellectual adventure, Russell Berman raises fundamental questions long ignored by literary scholars; Why does literature command our attention at all? Why would society want to cultivate a sphere of activity devoted to the careful study of literary fiction? Written as a tonic to what he calls the debilitating cultural relativism of contemporary literary studies, Fiction Sets You Free advances the innovative...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1587296047

ISBN13:9781587296048

Release Date:December 2007

Publisher:University of Iowa Press

Length:270 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"

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