Literature, Theory, and Common Sense by Antoine Compagnon
Assessing the accomplishments and failings of literary theory, this work defends the methods and goals of a theoretical commitment tempered by the wisdom of common sense. It is organized not by school of thought but around seven central questions: literariness, the author, the world, the reader, style, history, and value.
"Like everything that Antoine Compagnon writes, [this book] is intelligent, oblique, ironic, surprising the reader with unexpected shifts and reversalsIt may annoy both theorists and the advocates of common sense, but if they surrender to their annoyance, they will have missed the point."--Terence Cave, Times Literary Supplement
Antoine Compagnon is Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor of Literature at the Sorbonne.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691070421 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691070423 |
| Title | Literature, Theory, and Common Sense |
| Author | Antoine Compagnon |
| Series | New French Thought Series |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2004-07-26 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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