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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784734103321

Autore

Porter Dennis <1933->

Titolo

Rousseau's legacy : emergence and eclipse of the writer in France / / Dennis Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1995

ISBN

0-19-772596-1

1-280-52757-9

0-19-535803-1

1-4294-0659-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 pages)

Disciplina

840.9/007

Soggetti

Authors and readers - France - History

Authorship - Social aspects - France - History

Autobiography

French literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Literature and society - France - History

Politics and literature - France - History

France Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Putting the Polis in Command; 2. Stendhal: Overpoliticization and the Revenge of Literature; 3. Charles Baudelaire: Portrait of the Poet as Antiwriter; 4. Jean-Paul Sartre: Writer, Militant, Graphomaniac; 5. The Cultural Twilight of Roland Barthes; 6. Marguerite Duras: Autobiographical Acts, Celebrity Status; 7. Epilogue: From Althusser's Theory of a Murder to Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study focuses on the emergence, with Jean Jacques Rousseau, of a new and influential type of writer who specialized in revolutionary, sociopolitical critique. Close readings of the work of a number of major French writers are described.