The price of literature : the French novel's theoretical turn /
Bray, Patrick M.
The price of literature : the French novel's theoretical turn / Patrick M. Bray. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The novel's price tag -- The exceptional Madame de Stael -- Hugo's literary sublime, or the theoretical Peuple -- Balzac and the chagrin of theory -- Flaubert's novel utopia, or the literary method -- Having your cake and eating it too: Proust's aestheticized thought -- Conclusion: Distributions of literature.
Patrick M. Bray's The Price of Literature demonstrates that literature's freedom to represent anything has meant, paradoxically, that it cannot articulate a coherent theory of itself--unless this theory is a necessarily subversive literary representation.--Provided by publisher.
9780810139343 0810139340
22573/ctvbcwj6p JSTOR
French fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PQ631 / .B73 2019eb
843.009
The price of literature : the French novel's theoretical turn / Patrick M. Bray. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The novel's price tag -- The exceptional Madame de Stael -- Hugo's literary sublime, or the theoretical Peuple -- Balzac and the chagrin of theory -- Flaubert's novel utopia, or the literary method -- Having your cake and eating it too: Proust's aestheticized thought -- Conclusion: Distributions of literature.
Patrick M. Bray's The Price of Literature demonstrates that literature's freedom to represent anything has meant, paradoxically, that it cannot articulate a coherent theory of itself--unless this theory is a necessarily subversive literary representation.--Provided by publisher.
9780810139343 0810139340
22573/ctvbcwj6p JSTOR
French fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PQ631 / .B73 2019eb
843.009