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"What is Literature?" remains the most significant critical landmark of French literature since World War II. Neither abstract nor abstruse, it is a brilliant, provocative performance by a writer more inspired than cautious. "What is Literature?" challenges anyone who writes as if literature could be extricated from history or society. But Sartre does more than indict. He offers a definitive statement about the phenomenology of reading, and he goes on to provide a dashing example of how to write a history of literature that takes ideology and institutions into account. This new edition of "What is Literature?" also collects three other crucial essays of Sartre's for the first time in a volume of his. The essays presenting Sartre's monthly, Les Temps modernes, and on the peculiarly French manner of nationalizing literature do much to create a context for Sartre's treatise. "Black Orpheus" has been for many years a key text for the study of black and third-world literatures.
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"What is Literature?" and Other Essays, Jean Paul Sartre
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- Pubblicato
- 1988
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- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Jean Paul Sartre
- Editore
- Harvard University Press
- Pubblicato
- 1988
- Formato
- In brossura
- ISBN10
- 0674950844
- ISBN13
- 9780674950849
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Storie vere, Sulla letteratura, Tematica filosofica, Filosofia, Francia, Giornalismo d’opinione & Saggi, Critica letteraria, Teorie Scientifiche
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- Valutazione
- 3,7 su 5
- Descrizione
- "What is Literature?" remains the most significant critical landmark of French literature since World War II. Neither abstract nor abstruse, it is a brilliant, provocative performance by a writer more inspired than cautious. "What is Literature?" challenges anyone who writes as if literature could be extricated from history or society. But Sartre does more than indict. He offers a definitive statement about the phenomenology of reading, and he goes on to provide a dashing example of how to write a history of literature that takes ideology and institutions into account. This new edition of "What is Literature?" also collects three other crucial essays of Sartre's for the first time in a volume of his. The essays presenting Sartre's monthly, Les Temps modernes, and on the peculiarly French manner of nationalizing literature do much to create a context for Sartre's treatise. "Black Orpheus" has been for many years a key text for the study of black and third-world literatures.