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The Problem of Literary Value

Name: The Problem of Literary Value
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9781526167941
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Contributors:

Robert J. Meyer-Lee

Publisher:

Manchester University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Literary Criticism, Education

Book Subcategory:

Semiotics & Theory, Medieval, Arts in Education

Series:

Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

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Release Date:

2023-05-30

ISBN 13:

9781526167941

Weight:

1.03 lbs

Size:

8.50 x 5.50 x 0.69 inches

Pages:

296

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This book addresses the vexed status of literary value. Unlike other approaches, it pursues neither an apologetic thesis about literature's defining values nor, conversely, a demystifying account of those values' ideological uses. Instead, arguing that the category of literary value is inescapable, it focuses pragmatically on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities, proposing how we may reconcile that category's inevitability with our understandable wariness of its uncertainties and complicities. Toward these ends, it offers a preliminary theory of literary valuing and explores the problem of literary value in respect to the literary edition, canonicity and interpretation. Much of this exploration occurs within Chaucer studies, which, because of Chaucer's simultaneous canonicity and marginality, provides fertile ground for thinking through the problem's challenges. Using this subfield as a synecdoche, the book seeks to forge a viable rationale for literary studies generally.

About the Author
Robert J. Meyer-Lee is Professor of English at Agnes Scott College

The Problem of Literary Value

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