Trials of Desire : Renaissance Defenses of Poetry
ISBN: 9780300238082
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Yale University Press
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Subjects: Literature;

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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