THE WRITER WRITING by Francis-Noel Thomas ( 9780691637518 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE WRITER WRITING
PHILOSOPHIC ACTS IN LITERATURE

By:

Francis-Noel Thomas

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0691637512

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

19 April, 2016

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Pages:

212

Synopsis:

In an age of authorless, contextless, deconstructed texts, Francis-Noel 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 Shaw's Saint Joan and Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, read against the background of the authors' large, eccentric, and surprisingly similar claims about their texts as acts. He examines what happens when we take these claims seriously enough to find out why the authors made them in the first place and what bearing they have on the texts themselves.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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