The Imaginary Library An Essay on Literature and Society 1st Edition by Alvin B Kernan ISBN 0691614563 978-0691614564
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ISBN 10: 0691614563
ISBN 13: 978-0691614564
Author: Alvin B Kernan
In this speculative treatment of literature as a social institution, Alvin B. Kernan explores the inability of contemporary writers and critics to maintain a literary vision in a society that denies their values and methods.
Originally published in 1982.
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Table of contents:
- I. The Actual and Imaginary Library: Literature as a Social Institution, pg. 12
- II. Mighty Poets in their Misery Dead: The Death of the Poet in Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift, pg. 37
- III. “Battering the Object”: The Attack on the Literary Text in Malamud’s the Tenants, pg. 66
- IV. Reading Zemblan: The Audience Disappears in Nabokov’s Pale Fire, pg. 89
- V. The Taking of the Moon: The Struggle of the Poetic and Scientific Myths in Norman Mailer’s of a Fire on the Moon, pg. 130
- VI. Finding the New Thing, pg. 162
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