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1 online resource (315 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-296) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Influence
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 fast |
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French literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Authorship -- Social aspects -- France -- History
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Politics and literature -- France -- History
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Literature and society -- France -- History
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Authors and readers -- France -- History
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Autobiography.
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Autobiographies as Topic
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autobiography (genre)
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Authors and readers
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Authorship -- Social aspects
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Autobiography
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Intellectual life
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Literature and society
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Politics and literature
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France -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051436
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France
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
94026408 |
| ISBN |
9780195358032 |
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0195358031 |
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1280527579 |
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9781280527579 |
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1429406593 |
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9781429406598 |
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