Harvard University, Center For Hellenic Studies

Harvard University, Center For Hellenic Studies - The hatred of literature | william marx

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For 2,500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society.

But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary discourse paradoxically asserts the validity of what it wishes to deny.

The threat to literature's continued existence, William Marx writes, is not hatred but indifference.