{"product_id":"9781032469799-attending-to-the-literary","title":"Attending to the Literary","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Distinctiveness of Literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAttending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature\u003c\/em\u003e is a foray into current debates about the nature of the literary. The book speaks to a broad audience of readers for whom the question \"Why literature matters?\" remains an urgent intellectual challenge. \u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAttending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature\u003c\/em\u003e is a foray into current debates about the nature of the literary. What is literary? Is\u003cem\u003e literarity\u003c\/em\u003e a thing? Are there still aesthetic standards of taste? Is the category of literary aesthetics an obstacle to understanding the uses of literature? What does it mean to count the reading of literature as an experience in its own right? What would be the deficits to human experience without literature? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAttending to the Literary addresses all of these questions with a view to challenging the notion of literarity as merely representative of experience. On the contrary, Alan Singer shows how literarity is an enacting of experience. Through close readings of an eclectic repertoire of literary sentences – culled from the genres of fiction, poetry, and drama – Singer demonstrates how syntax stages human capacities for attending ever more consequentially to the world of practical experience. These stagings of forms of attention involve readers in the drama of reason-giving and expand the possibilities of rational imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAttending to the Literary\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to a broad audience of readers for whom the question \"Does literature matter?\" remains an urgent intellectual challenge. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40938766434401,"sku":"9781032469799","price":41.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_15353089_jpg.jpg?v=1705546750","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781032469799-attending-to-the-literary","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}