Literature and the public good / Rick Rylance
- Author:
- Rylance, Rick
- Published:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date:
- ©2016
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 226 pages ; 20 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Value Problems -- I.A Theft -- II.Costs and Benefits -- III.Books and Benefits -- IV.The Public Good -- V.Who Reads? -- VI.Screening Out? -- VII.`All the Instruments Agree' -- 2.Some Answers -- I.Plato -- II.Sir Philip Sidney -- III.A Peacock and His Tail -- IV.And After -- 3.Money -- I.Revenues -- II.Money -- 4.Goods -- I.Three Types of Good -- II.The Price of literature -- III.Old Misery -- 5.The Power of Empathy -- I.Ambiguity and a Celebration -- II.Hardship and Beyond -- III.The Worlds of Others -- IV.Being You.
- Summary:
- "Rick Rylance addresses the debate over the public value of literary studies in a book which starts from the widely-remarked predicament of the humanities in modern times. By comparison with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the humanities can be negatively characterized as at best optional extras; at worst, frivolous and wasteful. Funders and policy-makers can question their value in terms of utility, vocational prospects, and intrinsic worth, while journalists and commentators predict extinction."--Page [4] of cover.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780199654390 (pbk.)
0199654395 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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