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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: In praise of literature
  name:
    name part: Bauman, Zygmunt
    name part: 1925-2017
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Mazzeo, Riccardo
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 158 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: "In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the humanities claiming scientific status). While many commentators see literature and sociology as radically different vocations, Bauman and Mazzeo argue that they are bound together by a common purpose and a shared subject matter. Despite the many differences in terms of their methods and their ways of presenting their findings, novels and sociological texts are not at cross-purposes. Indeed, it is precisely their differences that make them at once indispensable to each other and mutually complementary. The writers of novels and of sociological texts may explore their world from different perspectives, seeking and producing different types of 'data', but their products bear the unmistakable marks of their shared origin. They feed each other and depend on each other in terms of their agenda, their discoveries and the contents of their messages. In a world characterized by the continuous search for new sensations and the fetishism of consumption, they bring fundamental existential questions back to the public agenda. Literature and sociology reveal the truth of the human condition only when they stay in one another's company, remaining attentive to each other's findings and engaged in a continuous dialogue. For only together can they rise to the challenging task of untangling and laying bare the complex intertwining of biography and history as well as of individual and society that totality we are constantly shaping while being shaped by it"--
  note: Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Literature and society
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: History and criticism
    topic: Theory, etc
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: Semiotics & Theory
  subject:
    topic: Literature and society
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: Theory, etc
  classification: PN51 .B325 2016
  classification: 809/.933552
  classification: LIT006000
  identifier: 9781509502684
  identifier: 1509502688
  identifier: 9781509502691
  identifier: 1509502696
  identifier: 2015025860
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 151023
    record change date: 20170927135801.0
    record identifier: in00003786093
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng