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What Is Literature? and Other Essays
Contributor(s): Sartre, Jean-Paul (Author), Ungar, Steven (Introduction by)

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 ISBN: 0674950844     ISBN-13: 9780674950849
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 1988
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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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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Philosophy | Aesthetics
- Literary Criticism | European - French
Dewey: 809
LCCN: 87037931
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 5.43" W x 8.48" L (1.03 lbs) 368 pages
Features: Index
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Ungar, Steven: - Steven Ungar is Professor of French and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa and the author of Roland Barthes: The Professor of Desire.Sartre, Jean-Paul: - Jean-Paul Sartre, the great figure of French literary and philosophical culture at mid-century, was the author of numerous works.
 
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