Research Catalog
Why literature matters : theories and functions of literature
- Title
- Why literature matters : theories and functions of literature / edited by Rüdiger Ahrens, Laurenz Volkmann.
- Publication
- Heidelberg : Winter, c1996.
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- Description
- vii, 424 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Anglistische Forschungen ; Bd. 241
- Uniform Title
- Anglistische Forschungen ; Heft 241.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Why literature matters / Wolfgang Iser -- Hermeneutics, general studies, and teaching / Richard M. Rorty -- An antithetical turn / Hazard Adams -- Shifts of aesthetic discourses / Rüdiger Ahrens -- The ethics of criticism in the age after value / Heinz Antor -- Why theory matters / Christoph Bode -- How can literary texts matter? / Lothar Bredella -- Romancing difference, courting coherence / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Contextualizing literary texts / Wilfried Brusch -- The fate of psychoanalytic literary criticism / Robert Burden -- Norman's conquest / Kevin L. Cope -- American identities and postcolonial theories / Theo D'haen -- Biography in drama / Therese Fischer-Seidel -- Literature, liberalism, and the current cultural radicalism / Winfried Fluck -- Dennis Potter's The singing detective / Vernon W. Gras -- Reading Nietzsche as postmodernist / Robert C. Holub -- Redeeming mimesis / David Kaufmann -- Engendering the reader / Evelyne Keitel -- No criticism without theory, no theory without criticism / Murray Krieger -- Literary study in the age of electronic reproduction / J. Hillis Miller -- Daniel Martin / Eberhard Späth -- Reconstructing a useable past / Laurenz Volkmann -- Literature in the theatre? / Robert Weimann -- The mother image as cultural concept and literary theme in the 19th- and 20th-century English novel / Natascha Würzbach -- Literary theory in America between innovation and dogmatism / Hubert Zapf.
- Call Number
- JFE 97-4070
- ISBN
- 3825304094
- LCCN
- 96180727
- OCLC
- 35574850
- Title
- Why literature matters : theories and functions of literature / edited by Rüdiger Ahrens, Laurenz Volkmann.
- Imprint
- Heidelberg : Winter, c1996.
- Series
- Anglistische Forschungen ; Bd. 241Anglistische Forschungen ; Heft 241.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Ahrens, Rüdiger, 1939-Volkmann, Laurenz.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 97-4070