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(And guarantees the value of literary estates).
That it failed to make a clear case for the purpose (and, by extension, the value) of literary criticism was a serious flaw.
Answering the first question is easy: if there's no evidence – even indirect evidence – for the civilizing value of literary fiction, we ought not to assume that it does civilize.
She seized on the occasion to argue for the value of literary culture, which she warned "may well be as endangered as the fauna of the oceans or the water of our rivers," and the importance of classical languages.
"The parochialism of our culture is intense," Lessing wrote in her 1971 preface to the novel, in which she confesses that although she believed she had a balanced and indeed humble view of the value of literary criticism, over the hostile reception to The Golden Notebook she "lost it".
As early as 1483, Richard III recognised the value of literary works by specifically exempting them from the government's protectionist legislation.
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Adrian Tahourdin on Pierre Bayard and possibly underrated value of the literary fib.
In "An Appetite for Poetry" (Harvard, 1989) he reaffirmed his belief in the value of reading literary classics as a way of gauging both ideals of permanence and the forces of change.
Durey suggests that the practitioners of the College (who were nearly all contagionists) were united by the "antediluvian" education they received at Oxford and Cambridge, where "undue emphasis was still placed on the value of a literary education and a respect for ancient authority".
The values of a literary work, however, are not exhausted by the separate values of its several strata, for the strata do not exist separately, but rather form an 'organic unity'.
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