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.