What is Literature for?

• मुख्य लेखक: Antoine Compagnon (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Collège de France 2014
• विषय: literature; literary theory; literary criticism; French literature; history of literature
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...