"What is Literature?" and Other Essays
Author | : Jean-Paul Sartre |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1988 |
ISBN-10 | : 0674950844 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780674950849 |
Rating | : 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
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.