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- catalog abstract "Porter combines a wide-ranging knowledge of contemporary theory and cultural history over the past two centuries in his readings of works by a number of major French writers; he situates their work in larger cultural and political transformations. In addition to the literary texts, he also touches on the "idea" of the writer as represented in paintings, engravings, and photographs. Examining the works of Stendhal, Baudelaire, Sartre, Barthes, Duras, Althusser, and Foucault, Rousseau's Legacy is of obvious interest to scholars and students of modern French literature and culture, and, given the influence of French philosophy and literary theory on literary and cultural studies in this century, it will also appeal to a broader nonspecialist readership. Porter concludes with the provocative claim that, with the collapse among intellectuals of faith in revolution, and with the degeneration of confession into the stuff of TV talk shows, the idea of the writer as an agent for moral and political change is also in eclipse. In modern Western literary culture, the writer who combines autobiographical witness with political critique has been the object of particular veneration, as the careers of such celebrated figures as Jean-Paul Sartre and Marguerite Duras among others attest. Dennis Porter argues in Rousseau's Legacy that this cultural idea of the writer - as distinct from the more traditional "man of letters"--First emerged in France in the decades preceding the French revolution, and has continued to exercise a nominative power over intellectual life well into our own day. In Porter's paradigm, Jean-Jacques Rousseau serves as a seminal figure who combined radical critique of existing institutions with a new form of confessional writing and a suspicion of the art of literature. Rousseau inaugurated the idea of a heroic and committed writerly life in which the opposition between public and private self is collapsed.".
- catalog contributor b7472552.
- catalog coverage "France Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "In modern Western literary culture, the writer who combines autobiographical witness with political critique has been the object of particular veneration, as the careers of such celebrated figures as Jean-Paul Sartre and Marguerite Duras among others attest. Dennis Porter argues in Rousseau's Legacy that this cultural idea of the writer - as distinct from the more traditional "man of letters"--First emerged in France in the decades preceding the French revolution, and has continued to exercise a nominative power over intellectual life well into our own day. In Porter's paradigm, Jean-Jacques Rousseau serves as a seminal figure who combined radical critique of existing institutions with a new form of confessional writing and a suspicion of the art of literature. Rousseau inaugurated the idea of a heroic and committed writerly life in which the opposition between public and private self is collapsed.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-296) and index.".
- catalog description "Jean-Jacques Rousseau: putting the polis in command -- Stendhal: overpoliticization and the revenge of literature -- Charles Baudelaire: portrait of the poet as antiwriter -- Jean-Paul Sartre: writer, militant, graphomaniac -- The cultural twilight of Roland Barthes -- Marguerite Duras: autobiographical acts, celebrity status -- Epilogue: From Althusser's Theory of a murder to Foucault's Aesthetics of existence.".
- catalog description "Porter combines a wide-ranging knowledge of contemporary theory and cultural history over the past two centuries in his readings of works by a number of major French writers; he situates their work in larger cultural and political transformations. In addition to the literary texts, he also touches on the "idea" of the writer as represented in paintings, engravings, and photographs. Examining the works of Stendhal, Baudelaire, Sartre, Barthes, Duras, Althusser, and Foucault, Rousseau's Legacy is of obvious interest to scholars and students of modern French literature and culture, and, given the influence of French philosophy and literary theory on literary and cultural studies in this century, it will also appeal to a broader nonspecialist readership.".
- catalog description "Porter concludes with the provocative claim that, with the collapse among intellectuals of faith in revolution, and with the degeneration of confession into the stuff of TV talk shows, the idea of the writer as an agent for moral and political change is also in eclipse.".
- catalog extent "306 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195091078".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "France Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog subject "840.9/007 20".
- catalog subject "Authors and readers France History.".
- catalog subject "Authorship France History Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Authorship History Social aspects France.".
- catalog subject "Authorship Social aspects France History.".
- catalog subject "Autobiography.".
- catalog subject "French literature History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society France History.".
- catalog subject "PQ71 .P67 1995".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature France History.".
- catalog subject "Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 Influence.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Jean-Jacques Rousseau: putting the polis in command -- Stendhal: overpoliticization and the revenge of literature -- Charles Baudelaire: portrait of the poet as antiwriter -- Jean-Paul Sartre: writer, militant, graphomaniac -- The cultural twilight of Roland Barthes -- Marguerite Duras: autobiographical acts, celebrity status -- Epilogue: From Althusser's Theory of a murder to Foucault's Aesthetics of existence.".
- catalog title "Rousseau's legacy : emergence and eclipse of the writer in France / Dennis Porter.".
- catalog type "text".