Definition of Literature and Other Essays

Name: Definition of Literature and Other Essays
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ISBN: 9780521318471

ISBN-10: 0521318475

ISBN-13: 9780521318471

Edition: 1984

Authors: W. W. Robson

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Professor W. W. Robson is an eminent literary critic, best known for his work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. His natural form of expression is the critical essay, and this book comprises a collection of essays on a variety of topics written in plain and straightforward language. What holds the collection together is a preoccupation with critical theory deployed in the first four essays. In 'The definition of literature', the title essay, the discussion turns on what kind of definition is to be recommended rather than on a particular formulation. 'On liberty of interpreting' examines the much-canvassed question of the relevance or otherwise to criticism of the author's…

Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/26/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface


Introduction: the Soviet concept of propaganda



The Civil War



The press



The struggle for the peasants



Liquidating illiteracy in revolutionary Russia



The Komsomol in the Civil War



The political use of books, films, and posters



The New Economic Policies



Political education



The literacy campaign



The Komsomol in the 1920s



The golden age of the Soviet cinema



The press and book publishing in the 1920s


Index