The Imaginary Library
An Essay on Literature and Society
1st Edition
Published on 10. March 2015
196 pages
978-1-4008-5566-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Originally published in 1982.
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Content
FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Acknowledgments, pg. vii
Introduction. The Place of Poetry in the World, pg. 3
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
Works Cited, pg. 176
Index, pg. 181
Contents, pg. v
Acknowledgments, pg. vii
Introduction. The Place of Poetry in the World, pg. 3
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
Works Cited, pg. 176
Index, pg. 181
