Literary Activism Paul Simonetti • Elena Shvarts

• Elena Shvarts

but at home he says nothing of what he is going through

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How to Stay Alive in the Woods

Literary Activism Paul Simonetti • Elena ShvartsLiterary Activism activism that revisits and interrogates an idea of literature emerges from a radically altered landscape for both publishing and academia, where market pressures are effecting changes on language, on the measuring of value, on the concept of influence we might struggle to recognise. Taking in the roles of writer, critic, translator, academic, and publisher, the essays in this volume follow no single line of enquiry. Rather, they