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Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry

By Margaret Ferguson

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780300238082
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (21918413 bytes)
Pages
\270
Time added
2023-05-30 06:11:38

Description

Why has literature in Western culture so often been called on to defend itself? How do defenses of fiction-making by poets and critics compete with the texts in which philosophers, theologians, historians, or scientists justify the truth-claims of their own disciplines? Margaret Ferguson addresses these questions in a wide-ranging study that defines and illuminates the defense as a rhetorical genre in its own right—a hybrid that blurs the boundary between fiction and theoretical explanation.

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