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"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 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. This new edition of "What is Literature?" also collects three other crucial essays of Sartre's for the first time in a volume of his. The essays presenting Sartre's monthly, Les Temps modernes , and on the peculiarly French manner of nationalizing literature do much to create a context for Sartre's treatise. "Black Orpheus" has been for many years a key text for the study of black and third-world literatures.

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  • Publisher Harvard University Press
  • Publication date 1988
  • ISBN 10  0674950844
  • ISBN 13  9780674950849
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 3
  • Number of pages 368

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    The essays presenting Sartre's monthly, Les Temps modernes, and on the peculiarly French manner of nationalizing literature do much to create a context for Sartre's treatise. "Black Orpheus" has been for many years a key text for the study of black and third-world literatures.

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    and Other Essays. Jean-Paul Sartre. Harvard University Press, 1988 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 361 pages. "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.

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    The essays presenting Sartre's monthly, Les Temps modernes, and on the peculiarly French manner of nationalizing literature do much to create a context for Sartre's treatise. "Black Orpheus" has been for many years a key text for the study of black and third-world literatures.

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    What Is Literature by Sartre,Jean Paul. Publication date 1949 Topics LANGUAGE. LINGUISTICS. LITERATURE, Literature, Literature Publisher Philosophical Library. Collection

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    What Is Literature? (French: Qu'est-ce que la littérature?: ), also published as Literature and Existentialism, [1]1] is an essay by French philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, published by Gallimard in 1948. [2]2] Initially published in freestanding essays across French literary journals Les Temps modernes, Situations I and Situations ...

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    The essays presenting Sartre's monthly, Les Temps modernes, and on the peculiarly French manner of nationalizing literature do much to create a context for Sartre's treatise. "Black Orpheus" has been for many years a key text for the study of black and third-world literatures.

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    The essays presenting Sartre's monthly, Les Temps modernes, and on the peculiarly French manner of nationalizing literature do much to create a context for Sartre's treatise. ""Black Orpheus"" has been for many years a key text for the study of black and third-world literatures.

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    Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) was a significant voice in the creation of existential thought. His explorations of the ways human existence is unique among all life-forms in its capacity to choose continue to influence fields such as Marxist philosophy, sociology, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, but ...