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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Contingencies of Value

What are commonly taken as the signs of literary value are, in effect, its springs. The endurance of a classic canonical author such as Homer, then, owes not to the alleged transcultural or universal value of his works but, on the contrary, to the continuity of their circulation in a particular culture.


Contingencies of Value, Barbara Herrnstein Smith
1988
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