Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17234/ZGB.32.11
The Value of Literature and Literary Evaluation
Christa Karpenstein-Eßbach
; University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Abstract
This article distinguishes between the inherent value of literature itself and literary evaluation of individual works. First, it conducts a critical examination of the concepts and procedures within literary criticism in terms of the retention and avoidance of value. The second step involves determining the intrinsic value of literature as distinct from various heteronomous functional definitions. Finally, literary evaluation of individual works is perceived as a process aimed at identifying the objective quality of aesthetic value in the divergences and tensions between norm, function and extra-aesthetic values.
Keywords
literary evaluation; aesthetic autonomy; Georges Bataille
Hrčak ID:
311795
URI
Publication date:
20.12.2023.
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