Literature: Why It Matters

by Robert Eaglestone

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'Now, what I want is Facts ... Facts alone are wanted in life, ' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and - despite two and a half thousand years of arguments - no one can agree what it is, or how to study it. But, argues Robert Eaglestone, it is precisely the open-ended nature of literature - that the meaning of texts and our responses to them can never be finalised...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1509532323

ISBN13:9781509532322

Release Date:March 2019

Publisher:Polity Press

Length:160 Pages

Weight:0.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 4.9" x 7.4"

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