About this title: ""What is Literature?"" remains the most significant critical landmark of French literature since World War II. Neither abstract nor abstruse, it is a brilliant, provocative performance by a writer more inspired than cautious. ""What is Literature?" "challenges anyone who writes as if literature could be extricated from history or society. But ...
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Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780674950849ISBN:0674950844
Description: Very Good+ 8vo. 361 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: What Is Literature: What Is Writing; Why Write; For Whom Does One Write; Situation of the Writer in 1947; Writing for One's Age; Introducing Les Temps Modernes; The Nationalization of Literature; and Black Orpheus; followed by Notes; A Note on the Text; and an index. Scans are available for all books. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARVARD UNIV PR
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780674950849ISBN:0674950844
Description: New. "What is Literature? " remains the most significant critical landmark of French literature since World War II. Neither abstract nor abstruse, it is a brilliant, provocative performance by a writer more inspired than cautious. "What is Literature? " c... read more
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