The Possibility of Literature is an essential collection from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in contemporary literary studies. Bringing together key compositions from the last twenty-five years, as well as several new pieces, the book demonstrates the changing fate of literary thinking over the first decades of the twenty-first century. Peter Boxall traces here the profound shifts in the global conditions that make literature possible as these have occurred in the historical passage from 9/11 to Covid 19. Exploring questions such as 'The Idea of Beauty', the nature of 'Mere Being', or the possibilities of Rereading, the author anatomises the myriad forces that shape the literary imagination. At the same time, he gives vivid critical expression to the imaginative possibilities of literature itself - those unique forms of communal life that literature makes possible in a dramatically changing world, and that lead us towards a new shared future.
| ISBN: | 9781009314299 |
| Publication date: | 5th September 2024 |
| Author: | Peter Boxall |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 408 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: from c 2000 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
The Possibility of Literature is an essential collection from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in contemporary literary studies. Bringing together key compositions from the last twenty-five years, as well as several new pieces, the book demonstrates the changing fate of literary thinking over the first decades of the twenty-first century. Peter Boxall traces here the profound shifts in the global conditions that make literature possible as these have occurred in the historical passage from 9/11 to Covid 19. Exploring questions such as 'The Idea of Beauty', the nature of 'Mere Being', or the possibilities of Rereading, the author anatomises the myriad forces that shape the literary imagination. At the same time, he gives vivid critical expression to the imaginative possibilities of literature itself - those unique forms of communal life that literature makes possible in a dramatically changing world, and that lead us towards a new shared future.
The Possibility of Literature features in the following genres: Literary studies: from c 2000, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Modern and Contemporary Fiction
The Possibility of Literature is available in Hardback
The Possibility of Literature was written by Peter Boxall and published by Cambridge University Press
The Possibility of Literature has 408 pages
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