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Porter Dennis <1933-> |
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Titolo |
Rousseau's legacy : emergence and eclipse of the writer in France / / Dennis Porter |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1995 |
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0-19-772596-1 |
1-280-52757-9 |
0-19-535803-1 |
1-4294-0659-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (315 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-296) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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