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Author:   Rónán McDonald (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781107575684

ISBN 10:   1107575680
Pages:   275
Publication Date:   24 November 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. The value of criticism and the project of modernism Anthony Cascardi; 2. Caprice: individual subjectivity in literary criticism Helen Small; 3. The phenomenology of literary valuation Charles Altieri; 4. Literature is history: aesthetic time and the ethics of literary will Alan Singer; 5. Dead on arrival: time and the value of old books Kathleen McLuskie; 6. The price of value Christopher Nealon; 7. To shelter the nothing that happens Julian Murphet; 8. When literary criticism mattered Simon During; 9. Literature among the objects of modernist criticism: value, medium, genre James Chandler; 10. 'Value!': Psychoanalysis, value, literature Jean-Michel Rabaté; 11. Afterlives of comparison: literature, equivalence, value Natalie Melas; 12. Feminism, gender and the literary commons Robin Truth Goodman; 13. The value of world-making in global literacy studies Debjani Ganguly; 14. Multiple versions of fictional minds: manuscript research, digital editing and enactive cognition in literary studies Dirk van Hulle; 15. After suspicion: surface, method, value Rónán McDonald; 16. Literary experience and the value of criticism Derek Attridge.

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'The value of this book and its timeliness in a culture that increasingly emphasises the exchange value of academic study (in the name of impact, transferable skills and value for money) may just involve the many ways in which its contributors argue for the non-instrumentalist transformative power of the literary as itself underpinning the values of literary studies.' Andrew Bennett, Textual Practice

Author Information

Rónán McDonald is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of New South Wales. His research interests include modern Irish literature and culture, literary criticism, and the value of the humanities. His books include Tragedy and Irish Literature, The Death of the Critic, and The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett (Cambridge, 2007).

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