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"What is Literature?" and Other Essays (Paperback) Loot Price: R978
Discovery Miles 9 780

"What is Literature?" and Other Essays (Paperback)

Jean-Paul Sartre; Introduction by Steven Ungar

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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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Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 1988
First published: October 1988
Authors: Jean-Paul Sartre
Introduction by: Steven Ungar
Dimensions: 216 x 139 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-95084-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN: 0-674-95084-4
Barcode: 9780674950849

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