Why Study Literature?

Table of contents

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• Why Study Literature? 1
• Title Page 3
• Contents 5
• Introduction Why Study Literature? the Editors 7
• Mediality 23
• Meaning as Spectacle- Verbal Art in the Digital Age 25
• A Defence of (the Study of) Literature or- Why (the Study of) Literature Cannot Be Replaced by Cultural Studies and Film (Studies) 55
• Mediality and Literature Literature versus Literature 85
• Locality and Temporality 97
• Literature as Global Thinking 99
• Not Another Adult Movie- Some Platitudes on Genericity and the Use of Literary Studies 119
• Models and Thought Experiments 135
• Literary Studies in Interaction 157
• Humanity 175
• On the Differences between Reading and Studying Literature 177
• Aesthetics and the New Ethics- Theorizing the Novel in the Twenty-First Century 195

• Why Study Literature? 1
• Title Page 3
• Contents 5
• Introduction Why Study Literature? the Editors 7
• Mediality 23
• Meaning as Spectacle- Verbal Art in the Digital Age 25
• A Defence of (the Study of) Literature or- Why (the Study of) Literature Cannot Be Replaced by Cultural Studies and Film (Studies) 55
• Mediality and Literature Literature versus Literature 85
• Locality and Temporality 97
• Literature as Global Thinking 99
• Not Another Adult Movie- Some Platitudes on Genericity and the Use of Literary Studies 119
• Models and Thought Experiments 135
• Literary Studies in Interaction 157
• Humanity 175
• On the Differences between Reading and Studying Literature 177
• Aesthetics and the New Ethics- Theorizing the Novel in the Twenty-First Century 195
• The Ethical Implications of Unnatural Scenarios 211
• The Force of Fictions 235
• Contributors 253