Is Literature Healthy?: The Literary Agenda

by Josie Billington

Book Overview

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of "the literary" has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198724691
• ISBN13: 9780198724698
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.6"