The problem of literary value

• Main Author: Meyer-Lee, Robert J
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2023
• Subjects: Actor-Network Theory; Biography, Literature and Literary studies; Chaucer editions; classical and medieval; critical theory; Education; history of Chaucer studies; history of literary criticism; history of medieval studies; literary canon; literary studies crisis; Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval; Literary studies: general; Literary theory; literary value; Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory; Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient; Literature: history and criticism; Philosophy and theory of education; Society and Social Sciences; thema EDItEUR; thema EDItEUR::D Biography; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNA Philosophy and theory of education; theory of interpretation

Literary value – in the sense of the worth, usefulness or importance of the literary – has been a topic of debate from no later than Plato’s impugning of poetry. But from the so-called canon wars of the last century to the present, literary value has also become a perplexing source of distress. With...