The Writer Writing: Philosophic Acts in Literature

by Francis-Noel Thomas

Book Overview

In an age of authorless, contextless, deconstructed texts, Francis-No l 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691609195
• ISBN13: 9780691609195
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"