“What is Literature?” and Other Essays

Description

What is Literature? challenges anyone who writes as if literature could be extricated from history or society. But Sartre does more than indict. He offers a definitive statement about the phenomenology of reading, and he goes on to provide a dashing example of how to write a history of literature that takes ideology and institutions into account.

• Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Published: 1988
• Pages: 372
• ISBN-13: 9780674950849