Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century

Name: Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century
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ISBN: 9780300104493

ISBN-10: 0300104499

ISBN-13: 9780300104493

Edition: 2004

Authors: Mark William Roche

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Not just another jeremiad against prevailing isms and orthodoxies,Why Literature Matters in the 21st Centuryexaminesliterature in its connection to virtue and moral excellence. The author is concerned with literature as the teacher of virtue. The current crisis in the humanities, Mark William Roche argues, may be traced back to the separation of art and morality. (“When the distinction between is and ought is leveled,” he writes, “the power of the professions increases.”) The arts and humanities concern themselves with the fate and prospects of humankind. Today that fate and those prospects are under the increasing influence of technology. In a technological age, literature gains in…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/10/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Roche is I.A. O'Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts & Letters at the University of Notre Dame, where he also holds appointments as the Reverend Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Professor of German Language & Literature & Concurrent Professor of Philosophy.




Introduction



The value of literature



The value of literary criticism



Contemporary models



Categories of the technological age



Aesthetics in the technological age



The value of literature today



Technology, ethics, and literature



The literary canon and the literary critic in the twenty-first century