"What is Literature?" and Other Essays

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 0674950844
ISBN-13 : 9780674950849
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Book Synopsis "What is Literature?" and Other Essays by : Jean-Paul Sartre

Download or read book "What is Literature?" and Other Essays written by Jean-Paul Sartre and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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