Rousseau's legacy : emergence and eclipse of the writer in France / Dennis Porter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porter, Dennis, 1933- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Influence.

French literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

French literature.

Authorship--Social aspects--France--History.

Authorship.

Politics and literature--France--History.

Politics and literature.

Literature and society--France--History.

Literature and society.

Authors and readers--France--History.

Authors and readers.

Autobiography.

France--Intellectual life.

France.

Local Subjects:

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study focuses on the emergence, with Jean Jacques Rousseau, of a new and influential type of writer who specialized in revolutionary, sociopolitical critique. Close readings of the work of a number of major French writers are described.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Putting the Polis in Command; 2. Stendhal: Overpoliticization and the Revenge of Literature; 3. Charles Baudelaire: Portrait of the Poet as Antiwriter; 4. Jean-Paul Sartre: Writer, Militant, Graphomaniac; 5. The Cultural Twilight of Roland Barthes; 6. Marguerite Duras: Autobiographical Acts, Celebrity Status; 7. Epilogue: From Althusser's Theory of a Murder to Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-296) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772596-1

1-280-52757-9

0-19-535803-1

1-4294-0659-3

OCLC:

476011792