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The price of literature : the French novel's theoretical turn / Patrick M. Bray.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780810139343
  • 0810139340
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Price of literature.DDC classification:
  • 843.009 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ631 .B73 2019eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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