The Hatred of Literature

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Author: William Marx ISBN: 9780674983069
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: January 8, 2018
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: William Marx
ISBN: 9780674983069
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: January 8, 2018
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

For 2,500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society. But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary discourse paradoxically asserts the validity of what it wishes to deny. The threat to literature’s continued existence, William Marx writes, is not hatred but indifference.

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For 2,500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society. But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary discourse paradoxically asserts the validity of what it wishes to deny. The threat to literature’s continued existence, William Marx writes, is not hatred but indifference.

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