Debates rage over what kind of literature we ought to read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? How do we know when we have a piece of literature in our hand? Why we should read literature? And how do we read literature? These are some of the big questions tackled by Hillis Miller in this fascinating and reflective little book. Well known for his work on ethics and literature, he goes back to some of the earliest questions that Plato and Aristotle asked about literature.
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The task of On Literature is not the banal one of attemptingto recapture 'the literary' in the face of technological encroachments, but a more ambitious effort to establish the parameters of our response to these imagined, fictive, virtual realms..
–Brian Dillon, TLS 作者简介
J. Hillis Miller is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been since 1986. He is the author of several well-known books, including The Ethics of Reading, Theory Now and Then(1991) and Ariadne's Thread (1992). 目录
1. What is Literature?2. Literature as Virtual Reality3. The Secret of Literature4. Why Read Literature?5. How to Read Literature?
| 出版社 | Routledge |
|---|---|
| 作者 | Hillis Miller |