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The Writer Writing : Philosophic Acts in Literature.

In an age of authorless, contextless, deconstructed texts, Francis-Noël Thomas argues that it is time to re-examine a fundamental but neglected concept of literature: writing is an action whose agent is an individual. Addressing both general readers and scholars, Thomas offers two cases, Bernard Sh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thomas, Francis-Noël
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations ; Foreword ; Preface; Acknowledgments ; CHAPTER ONE ; The Writer Writing; CHAPTER TWO ; 'Intentions' and 'Purposes'; Interpretation and Actions; Intention and Historical Interpretation; Purpose and Literary Art; CHAPTER THREE; Parody' or the Imitation of Disciplines; CHAPTER FOUR ; Explanations; Scientific Explanation; Processive Explanation; CHAPTER FIVE; Bernard Shaw: Historical Explanation; A Frankly Doctrinal Theatre
  • G.B.S; G.B.S. in the Theater; G.B.S. as Historian; Saint Joan: The Argument and Function of the Preface; The Scope of the Play.
  • The Play of Saint Joan: Structure and MechanismThe Epilogue; CHAPTER SIX; Marcel Proust: Psychological Explanation; The Book and the Man; Psychology in Space and Time
  • The Syllabus of Errors; The Triumph of the Will; The Historical Author, the Narrator, and Their Books; CHAPTER SEVEN; Historical Interpretation: The Face of the Muse and the Baker's Daughter ; Notes; Index.