"What is Literature?" and Other Essays
"What is Literature?" and Other Essays
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Summary
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.
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"What is Literature?" and Other Essays by Jean-Paul Sartre
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.
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780674950849 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674950844 |
| Title | "What is Literature?" and Other Essays |
| Author | Jean Paul Sartre |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1988-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |