By Marjorie Garber
ISBN-10: 0307379620
ISBN-13: 9780307379627
Whilst the decline of the analyzing of literature, as argued by means of the nationwide Endowment for the humanities, proceeds in our tradition, the writer, provides us a meditation at the usefulness and uselessness of literature within the electronic age. what's literature, besides? How has it been understood over the years, and what's its relevance for us at the present time? who're its gatekeepers? Is its canonicity fastened? Why has literature been on the Read more...
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Nietzsche thinks too much consciousness of history prevents action and engagement in the world. Alberti thinks too much engagement in the world prevents reading and writing. Neither is hostile to fame, but both are keenly aware of the dangers of seeking it. Marx sees that the commodity articulates false consciousness, erasing or occluding human labor. But there are commonalities in their approaches. Here is Nietzsche on what’s wrong with scholarship: Believe me: when human beings are forced to work in the factory of scholarship and become useful before they are mature, then in a short time scholarship itself is just as ruined as the slaves who are exploited in this factory from an early age.
Just look at the scholars, the exhausted hens … they can only cackle more than ever because they are laying eggs more frequently. To be sure, the eggs have kept getting smaller (although the books have only gotten bigger). 27 What is the praxis of literature? Is it creative writing, the production of poems, plays, novels, and ctions, or does its praxis extend to literary criticism—and if so, who are the intended readers? Nietzsche’s scornful reference to the “mixed public” and to “popularization” foreshadows today’s focus on “the public humanities” and on accessibility, from book clubs to PBS specials.
But these categories of national, social, historical, political, ideological, and other motivating frameworks shaped the debate about “use” from other twentieth-century perspectives as well. For much of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, then, the debate about the usefulness of literature was focused on social issues: moral instruction, ethical concerns, and societal and political advancement. Whether the governing ideology was liberalism, conservatism, aestheticism, Marxism, or Western democracy, the arguments for use were deployed in the service of a certain vision of a humane society.
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