Against Literature

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
Publisher Place: Minneapolis
Publisher Year: 1993
Edition: First Edition

Description: 168 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Beverley's Demonstration Of How The Internal Logic That Has Always Driven The Dominant Conception Of Literature Must Of Necessity Explode Into Cultural Politics Is A Significant Intervention Into Current Debates About Cultural Studies, The Canon, And Multiculturalism.

Publishers Description: Is there a way of thinking about literature that is 'outside' or 'against' literature? In Against Literature, John Beverley brilliantly responds to this question, arguing for a negation of the literary that would allow nonliterary forms of cultural practice to displace literature's hegemony.

ISBN: 9780816622498