TY - BOOK AU - Kernan,Alvin B. TI - The death of literature SN - 0300047835 (alk. paper) AV - PN 98 .P67 K47 1990 PY - 1990/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Postmodernism (Literature) KW - Criticism N1 - 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 ER -