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"Rick Rylance addresses the debate over the public value of literary studies in a book which starts from the widely-remarked predicament of the humanities in modern times. By comparison with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the humanities can be negatively characterized as at best optional extras; at worst, frivolous and wasteful. Funders and policy-makers can question their value in terms of utility, vocational prospects, and intrinsic worth, while journalists and commentators predict extinction."--Page [4] of cover.

Humanities. --- Literature and society. --- Common good. --- Gesellschaft. --- Literatur. --- Öffentliches Gut. --- Gemeinwohl. --- Literaturwissenschaft. --- Öffentliche Leistung. --- Sociology of literature --- Didactics of languages