Kernan, Alvin B.

The death of literature / Alvin Kernan. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c1990. - ix, 230 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-224) and index.

1. Ideology as aesthetics: the politics of romantic and modern literature -- 2. Lady Chatterly and "Mere chatter about Shelley": the university asked to define literature -- 3. Authors as rentiers, readers as proletariat, critics as revolutionaries -- 4. Literature and the law: the moral rights of artists -- 5. Plagiarism and poetics: literature as property and ethos -- 6. Technology and literature: book culture and television culture -- 7. The battle for the word: dictionaries, deconstructors, and language engineers -- 8. The tree of knowledge: literature's presence in the social world.

0300047835 (alk. paper) 9780300047837 (alk. paper)

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Postmodernism (Literature)
Criticism.

PN 98 .P67 / K47 1990