The use and abuse of literature /
Marjorie Garber.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.
- 320 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Use and abuse -- The pleasures of the canon -- What isn't literature -- What's love got to do with it? -- So you want to read a poem -- Why literature is always contemporary -- On truth and lie in a literary sense -- Mixed metaphors -- The impossibility of closure.