You also believe in other things: science, or the value of literature, or democracy.
Donations would be welcome to the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA, to honor his value of literature and Jewish culture.
Ruth opened the minds of thousands of Brearley girls to the abiding value of literature.
He was talking about "the value of literature" and "the necessity of protecting civilization against the forces of barbarity," and I said, yes, yes . . .
were convinced of the improving value of literature, but in the twentieth century the sophisticated position (Wilde, Nabokov, Updike, Vidal) was always that literature improves nothing, does nothing; it creates only delight.
While the value of literature ought not to be a matter of faith, it looks as if, for many of us, that is exactly what it is.
Yi Il-Lo, in his P'ahan chip (1260; "Jottings to Break Up Idleness"), defends the value of literature and praises the beautifully chiseled sentence.
The author of two poetry collections and six published novels, she turned her back on the literary world after a series of personal tragedies and medical crises which made her question the value of literature and embark on a restless, self-torturing spiritual quest.
Although almost all of the criticism ever written dates from the 20th century, questions first posed by Plato and Aristotle are still of prime concern, and every critic who has attempted to justify the social value of literature has had to come to terms with the opposing argument made by Plato in The Republic.
July 27 , 1906Minsk, Belarus September 14, 2000 Paris, France Jerzy Giedroyc, (born July 27 , 1906 Minsk, Russia [now in Belarus] died Sept. 14, 2000, Paris, France), Russian-born Polish editor and publisher who, saw the political value of literature and, while living in Warsaw, founded (1929) the right-wing magazine Bunt Mlodych ("The Rebellion of the Young"), which later (1937) became Polityka.
