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 similar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691069557
• ISBN13: 9780691069555
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"