"What is Literature?" and Other Essays
- ISBN-10
- 0674950844
- ISBN-13
- 9780674950849
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 361
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Description
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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