‘Facts alone are wanted in life,’ exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the
beginning of Dickens’ _Hard Times_. Literature is not about facts
alone, and - despite two and a half thousand years of arguments - no
one can agree on what it is, or how to study it. But, argues Robert
Eaglestone, it is precisely the open-ended nature of literature that
makes it such a rewarding and useful subject.
Eaglestone shows that studying literature can change who you are,
turning you from a ‘reader’ into a ‘critic’: someone attuned
to the ways we make meaning in our world. Literature is a living
conversation which provides endless opportunities to rethink and
reinterpret our societies and ourselves. With examples ranging from
Sappho to _Skyrim_, this book shows how literature offers freer and
deeper ways of thinking and being.
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9781509532346
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2019
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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