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'I venture that aesthetic value is inseparable from use, but also that our
engagements with texts are extraordinarily varied, complex, and often
unpredictable in kind. The pragmatic, in this sense, neither destroys
not excludes the poetic. To propose that the meaning of literature
lies in its use is to open up for investigation a vast terrain of practices, expectations, emotions, hopes, dreams, and interpretations'
— Nov 07, 2021 01:23AM
engagements with texts are extraordinarily varied, complex, and often
unpredictable in kind. The pragmatic, in this sense, neither destroys
not excludes the poetic. To propose that the meaning of literature
lies in its use is to open up for investigation a vast terrain of practices, expectations, emotions, hopes, dreams, and interpretations'
