Download e-book for iPad: The Practice of Value: Essays on literature in cultural by John Frow

By John Frow

ISBN-10: 1742583466

ISBN-13: 9781742583464

in recent times the disciplines of literary reviews and cultural stories have engaged in occasional hostilities yet very not often in efficient engagement with every one other’s methodologies. but each one bargains a suite of wealthy assets for the opposite in a interval of disciplinary challenge around the Humanities. The essays gathered right here, operating on the element of intersection of those fields, are centrally involved in conflicts of price: the classy worth that's ascribed to texts; the commercial worth that accrues to highbrow estate; the techniques of social valuation that flip waste into worthy and again back; the buildings of valued wisdom that form either the disciplines of data and lifestyle; and the political struggles over social and cultural distinction that supply upward thrust, at their such a lot severe, to the desolation of groups and the destruction of cultures.

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