Sartre: Origins of a Style

by Fredric Jameson

2020-11-25 08:09:53

First published in 1961, Sartre: The Origins of a Style is a striking attempt "not merely to analyze Sartre's work formally , from an aesthetic perspective but above all to replace Sartre in literary history itself." As a study of Sar... Read more
First published in 1961, Sartre: The Origins of a Style is a striking attempt "not merely to analyze Sartre's work formally , from an aesthetic perspective but above all to replace Sartre in literary history itself." As a study of Sartre's writings this work articulates the antagonism between the modernist tradition and Sartrean narrative or stylistic procedures. From the broader methodological perspective, Jameson turns around "the relationship between narrative and narrative closure, the possibility of storytelling, and the kinds of experience­ social and existential­structurally available in a given social formation." Less

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File size8.75 X 6.35 X 0.68 in
Print pages256
PublisherColumbia University Press
Publication date December 3, 1984
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780231058919
Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western c...

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