Research Catalog

Title

Why literature matters : theories and functions of literature / edited by Rüdiger Ahrens, Laurenz Volkmann.

Publication

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag C. Winter, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Ahrens, Rüdiger, 1939-
• Volkmann, Laurenz.

Description

vii, 424 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Anglistische Forschungen ; Bd. 241

Uniform Title

Anglistische Forschungen ; Heft 241.

Subject

• Literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bilbiographical 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.

ISBN

3825304094

OCLC

• 35574850
• ocm35574850

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries