The Price of Literature: The French Novel's Theoretical Turn
Autor Patrick M. Brayen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mar 2019
The Price of Literature examines the presence of theory in the nineteenth-century French novel, something Proust likened to leaving a price tag on a gift. Emerging after the French Revolution, what we now call literature was conceived as an art liberated from representational constraints. Patrick M. Bray shows how literature’s freedom to represent anything at all has meant, paradoxically, that it cannot articulate a coherent theory of itself—unless this theory is a necessarily subversive literary representation, or “the novel’s theoretical turn.”
Literary thought, or the theory produced by the text, can only function by exploring what escapes dominant representations. The Price of Literature analyzes how certain iconic texts from the nineteenth century (by Mme de Staël, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Proust) perform a theoretical turn to claim the freedom to represent anything in the world, but also literature’s ability to transform the world it represents. The conclusion advances a new way of thinking about literary scholarship—one based on how literature redistributes ways of writing by lending form to thought.
Literary thought, or the theory produced by the text, can only function by exploring what escapes dominant representations. The Price of Literature analyzes how certain iconic texts from the nineteenth century (by Mme de Staël, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Proust) perform a theoretical turn to claim the freedom to represent anything in the world, but also literature’s ability to transform the world it represents. The conclusion advances a new way of thinking about literary scholarship—one based on how literature redistributes ways of writing by lending form to thought.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810139329
ISBN-10: 0810139324
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10: 0810139324
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Notă biografică
PATRICK M. BRAY is an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian at The Ohio State University and the author of The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction.
Cuprins
Preface
Introduction – The Novel’s Price Tag
Chapter One – The Exceptional Madame de Staël
Chapter Two – Hugo’s Literary Sublime or the Theoretical Peuple
Chapter Three – Balzac and the Chagrin of Theory
Chapter Four – Flaubert’s Novel Utopia or the Literary Method
Chapter Five – Having your Cake and Eating It too: Proust’s Aestheticized Thought
Conclusion – Distributions of Literature
Works Cited
Introduction – The Novel’s Price Tag
Chapter One – The Exceptional Madame de Staël
Chapter Two – Hugo’s Literary Sublime or the Theoretical Peuple
Chapter Three – Balzac and the Chagrin of Theory
Chapter Four – Flaubert’s Novel Utopia or the Literary Method
Chapter Five – Having your Cake and Eating It too: Proust’s Aestheticized Thought
Conclusion – Distributions of Literature
Works Cited
Descriere
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.