The price of literature : the French novel's theoretical turn /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bray, Patrick M. (Patrick Maxwell) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
French fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism.
Roman français > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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