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What is Literature for? - Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 30 November 2006

Name: What is Literature for?
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Author: Antoine Compagnon
ISBN: 9782722602755

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Antoine Compagnon

Collège de France
Paru le : 07/02/2014

Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question "What is literature?", the critical and political question "What can literature do?" begs... > Lire la suite

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Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question "What is literature?", the critical and political question "What can literature do?" begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? "My confidence in the future of literature", wrote Italo Calvino, consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it".
Is this still relevant to us today?

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Date de parution : 07/02/2014
Editeur : Collège de France
Collection : Leçons inaugurales
ISBN : 978-2-7226-0275-5
EAN : 9782722602755
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Biographie d'Antoine Compagnon

Antoine Compagnon is a Professor of French Literature at Collège de France, Paris, and the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary degrees from King's College London, HEC Paris, and the University of Liege.