
Why Study Literature?
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- Cover
- Title page
- Colophon
- Contents
- Introduction
- Why Study Literature?
- The editors
- Reframing Literature
- Why Literature?
- Some possible answers to the question "Why Study Literature?"
- Mediality
- Locality & Temporality
- Humanity
- References
- MEDIALITY
- Meaning as Spectacle: Verbal Art in the Digital Age
- Marie-Laure Ryan
- The spectacularization of language
- A technological typology of texts
- Category 1: Naturally generated linear texts for print
- Category 2: Naturally generated linear texts presented on the computer screen
- Category 3: Naturally generated database texts for print
- Category 4: Naturally generated database texts performed on the computer
- Category 5: Computer generated texts for print
- Category 6: Texts generated and presented by computer
- Dysfunctional language
- Return to functionality
- Bi-medial texts
- Networking
- Conclusion
- References
- A Defence of (the Study of) Literature
- or: Why (the Study of) Literature Cannot Be Replaced by Cultural Studies and Film (Studies)
- Werner Wolf
- Literature and the study of literature - increasingly outmoded activities?
- 'Literature' in today's academic studies
- Major general functions of literature, and why literary studies cannot be replaced by Cultural Studies
- Qualities and functions specific to literature, or what might happen if Fahrenheit 451 became reality?
- Conclusion: Literature as an irreplaceable medium and literary studies as an equally irreplaceable research and educational institution?
- References
- Mediality and Literature
- Literature versus literature
- Morten Kyndrup
- The Centrifugality of Literary Studies
- What is Literature?
- Time
- Space
- Sign System
- Fictionality
- Enunciation
- Literature's Mediality
- Why Study Intermediality?
- References
- LOCALITY AND TEMPORALITY
- Literature as Global Thinking
- Svend Erik Larsen
- Why (study) literature?
- Texts without borders
- Textual interaction
- Language in a media landscape
- Translation
- Global literature?
- Literature as aesthetic experience
- To see things for the first time
- The translocal perspective
- References
- Not Another Adult Movie:
- Some Platitudes on Genericity and the Use of Literary Studies
- Sune Auken
- References
- Models and Thought Experiments
- Brian McHale
- Models
- Modeling-For, or, Thought Experiments
- Don Quixote, or, Learning from Science Fiction
- References
- Literary Studies in Interaction
- Anne-Marie Mai
- Modern literary values and the literary opposition
- The highly diverse literary landscape
- Text Rain - an example
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Creative reading and writing
- References
- HUMANITY
- On the Differences between Reading and Studying Literature
- Magnus Persson
- Lay reading and professional reading
- Linguistic competence and literary competence
- Bridging the divide - towards a third way of reading
- References
- Aesthetics and the New Ethics:
- Theorizing the Novel in the Twenty-First Century
- Dorothy J. Hale
- References
- The Ethical Implications of Unnatural Scenarios
- Jan Alber
- The Impossible Temporality in Walter Map's De Nugis Curialium
- The Unnatural Narrators of the 18th Century
- The Transparent Minds in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
- The Impossible Characters in Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine
- The Unnatural Space in Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park
- Conclusion
- References
- The Force of Fictions
- Richard Walsh
- References
- Contributors
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