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The Writer Writing

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

The Writer Writing

By Francis-Noel Thomas

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About the book

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 w...Show more

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9780691609195

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2014

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