{"product_id":"what-is-literature-and-other-essays-paperback","title":"What Is Literature? and Other Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean Paul Sarte\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is Literature?\u003c\/i\u003e remains the most significant critical landmark of French literature since World War II. Neither abstract nor abstruse, it is a brilliant, provocative performance by a writer more inspired than cautious. \u003ci\u003eWhat is Literature? \u003c\/i\u003echallenges 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. This new edition of \u003ci\u003eWhat is Literature?\u003c\/i\u003e also collects three other crucial essays of Sartre's for the first time in a volume of his. The essays presenting Sartre's monthly, \u003ci\u003eLes Temps modernes\u003c\/i\u003e, and on the peculiarly French manner of nationalizing literature do much to create a context for Sartre's treatise. Black Orpheus has been for many years a key text for the study of black and third-world literatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.06 x 8.48 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 1988\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723434037311,"sku":"9780674950849","price":67.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/376e3368b964b4f15dd3519904a19b9a.webp?v=1765099147","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/what-is-literature-and-other-essays-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}