TY - BOOK AU - Bray,Patrick M. TI - The price of literature: the French novel's theoretical turn SN - 9780810139343 AV - PQ631 .B73 2019eb U1 - 843.009 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Evanston, Illinois PB - Northwestern University Press KW - French fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc KW - Criticism KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1990947 ER -