"What is Literature?" and Other Essays

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Jean Paul Sartre

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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.

Author Biography:

Jean-Paul Sartre, the great figure of French literary and philosophical culture at mid-century, was the author of numerous works. 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.

Release date Australia

October 15th, 1988

Author

Jean Paul Sartre

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Introduction by Steven Ungar

Illustrations

None

Pages

368

Dimensions

140x216x19

ISBN-13

9780674950849

Product ID

14662349

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