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COPYRIGHT 2005 Modern Humanities Research Association
Why Does Literature Matter? By FRANK B. FARRELL. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2004. xi+266pp. $39.95422-95. ISBN 0-8014-4180-3.
The title of this book poses one of the most important questions facing those of us who teach literature in the universities today. Ever since the concept of literature came under scrutiny during the 1970s, we have found ourselves in a beleaguered position. On the one hand, we have had to fight off those philistine governments that see the humanities in general and literature in particular as, at best,...
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