Solitude in Society : : A Sociological Study in French Literature / / Robert Sayre.
Robert Sayre brings a special kind of literary intelligence to his study of the problem of isolation in modern society. He gives us a spirited instance of a sociological approach to literature, more specifically a Marxist approach that forcefully links a literary theme to a social fact. In contrast...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1978 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE. A Social History of Solitude
- 1. Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- 2. L'Ancien regime: Agreeable Wilderness, Pleasant Solitude
- 3. Modern Times
- PART TWO. Solitude in the Twentieth-Century French Novel
- 4. Du côté de chez Swann: The Unknowable Other
- 5. La Condition humaine: Solitude or Solidarity?
- 6. Journal d'un cure de Campagne: The Saint's Gethsemane
- 7. La Chute: The Egocentric Individual
- 8. Le Planétarium: Solitude in the World of Commodities
- Afterword
- NOTES. INDEX
- Notes
- Index