The problem of literary value

The problem of literary valueThis book addresses the vexed status of literary value, focusing on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities, using Chaucer studies as a case in point. It explores how we may reconcile literary values inevitability with its uncertainties and complicities, seeking to forge a viable rationale for literary studies generally.

This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material

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This collection of fifteen essays by distinguished scholars covers aspects of interdisciplinarity and collaboration within the Republic of Letters

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An exciting and provocative collection of essays which registers the changes to 'Englishness' since the 1950s

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