The use and abuse of literature

by Marjorie B. Garber, Marjorie Garber

2011 320 pages eng

Even as the decline of the reading of literature, as argued by the National Endowment for the Arts, proceeds in our culture, the author, gives us a meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of literature in the digital age. What is literature, anyway? How has it been understood over time, and wha…