The Writer Writing : : Philosophic Acts in Literature / / Francis-Noël Thomas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Thomas, Francis-Noël,
• MitwirkendeR: Booth, Wayne C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 245
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)

In an age of authorless, contextless, deconstructed texts, Francis-Noël 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 what happens when we take these claims seriously enough to find out why the authors made them in the first place and what bearing they have on the texts themselves.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. The Writer Writing -- CHAPTER TWO. 'Intentions' and 'Purposes' -- CHAPTER THREE. 'Parody' or the Imitation of Disciplines -- CHAPTER FOUR. Explanations -- CHAPTER FIVE. Bernard Shaw: Historical Explanation -- CHAPTER SIX. Marcel Proust: Psychological Explanation -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Historical Interpretation: The Face of the Muse and the Baker's Daughter -- Notes -- Index