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

• Autore: Porter Dennis <1933->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Disciplina: 840.9/007
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: France Intellectual life
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rousseau's legacy
• ISBN: 1-280-52757-9; 0-19-535803-1; 1-4294-0659-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450971803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II