The Thematics of Commitment : : The Tower and the Plain / / Peter Maxwell Cryle.

Viewing thematic writing as the differentiation and elaboration of cultural knowledge, P. M. Cryle applies this new kind of thematics to the commitment" most often mentioned by literary critics in connection with existentialist literature.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Librar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1985
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 867
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Physical Description:1 online resource (472 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • METHODOLOGICAL PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I The Hill and the Plain: La Colline inspirée
  • II. The Upright and the Rampant: Germinal
  • III. The Ups and Downs of Commitment and Detachment: "La Comédie de Charleroi"
  • IV. The High Plateaus: L'Homme à cheval
  • V. Getting Down to Earth: Les Mouches, "Erostrate," Les Chemins de la Liberté
  • VI. Making Molehills out of Mountains: Imaginative Polemics in Sartre and
  • VII. Routine Elevation: Le Mythe de Sisyphe, La Peste, L'Exil et le royaume, La Chute
  • VIII. Refusing to Go Down: Rhinocéros, Le Piéton de Vair
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SECONDARY TEXTS
  • INDEX