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Article: The function and value of literature and literary studies reconsidered.(A Manifesto for Literary Studies)(Why Does Literature Matter?)(Book review)
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- College Literature
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- September 22, 2006
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Garber, Marjorie. 2003. A Manifesto for Literary Studies. Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities Short Studies. Seattle: University of Washington Press. $14.95 sc. 69 pp.
Farrell, Frank. 2004. Why Does Literature Matter? Ithaca: Cornell University Press. $39.95 hc. 261 pp.
In 1949, Rene Wellek and Austin Warren divided literary studies into three branches: literary criticism which determines the meaning of individual works and makes evaluative judgments regarding their worth, literary theory which studies the principles of literature qua literature, and literary history which views literature from a diachronic perspective (1956, 38-45). But by ...