Read The Trouble with Literature (Clarendon Lectures in English)

The Trouble with Literature (Clarendon Lectures in English)

Victoria Kahn

4.9/5 (28988 ratings)

Description:This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2017, argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. But instead of arguing that the Reformation fostered English literature, as scholars have often done, Victoria Kahn claims that literature helped undo the Reformation, with implications for both poetry and belief.Ultimately, literature in the Reformation is one vehicle by which religious belief was itself transformed into a human artifact, whether we understand this as a poetic artifact or a mental fiction. This transformation in turn helped produce the eighteenth-century discipline of aesthetics, with its emphasis on our experience of non-cognitive pleasure in the work of art, and the modern formalist definition of literature, according to which--in the words of one critic--'literature solves no problems and saves no souls.' This modern definition of literature, in short, has a history, this history is intertwined with the problem of belief, and by returning to the fraught years of the late sixteenth and seventeenth century in England, we can come to a new understanding of how the trouble with literature has shaped our discipline. The first lecture contrasts modern and early modern understandings of literature and literariness. The second and third lectures focus on Thomas Hobbes and John Milton. The fourth lecture treats the work of Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, and J.M. Coetzee.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Trouble with Literature (Clarendon Lectures in English). To get started finding The Trouble with Literature (Clarendon Lectures in English), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0198808747

Description: This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2017, argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. But instead of arguing that the Reformation fostered English literature, as scholars have often done, Victoria Kahn claims that literature helped undo the Reformation, with implications for both poetry and belief.Ultimately, literature in the Reformation is one vehicle by which religious belief was itself transformed into a human artifact, whether we understand this as a poetic artifact or a mental fiction. This transformation in turn helped produce the eighteenth-century discipline of aesthetics, with its emphasis on our experience of non-cognitive pleasure in the work of art, and the modern formalist definition of literature, according to which--in the words of one critic--'literature solves no problems and saves no souls.' This modern definition of literature, in short, has a history, this history is intertwined with the problem of belief, and by returning to the fraught years of the late sixteenth and seventeenth century in England, we can come to a new understanding of how the trouble with literature has shaped our discipline. The first lecture contrasts modern and early modern understandings of literature and literariness. The second and third lectures focus on Thomas Hobbes and John Milton. The fourth lecture treats the work of Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, and J.M. Coetzee.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Trouble with Literature (Clarendon Lectures in English). To get started finding The Trouble with Literature (Clarendon Lectures in English), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Trouble with Literature (Clarendon Lectures in English)

The Trouble with Literature (Clarendon Lectures in English)

More Books

By Victoria Kahn Pinkalicious 5 Book Set-Purplicious, Pinkalicious, Silverlicious, Emeraldalicious and Goldilicious [Paperback]

By Victoria Kahn Pinkalicious 5 Book Set-Purplicious, Pinkalicious, Silverlicious, Emeraldalicious and Goldilicious [Paperback]

The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts

The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts

Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance

Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance

Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850

Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850

Machiavellian Rhetoric by Victoria Kahn (1994-07-05)

Machiavellian Rhetoric by Victoria Kahn (1994-07-05)

Machiavellian Rhetoric

Machiavellian Rhetoric

Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 by Victoria Kahn (2004-09-19)

Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 by Victoria Kahn (2004-09-19)

Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674

Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674

Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe

Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe