TY  - BOOK
AU  - Compagnon,Antoine
AU  - Cosman,Carol
TI  - Literature, Theory, and Common Sense
T2  - New French Thought Series
SN  - 9780691268347
U1  - 801 21
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Criticism
KW  - French literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Literature
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Adverb
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Author function
KW  - Author
KW  - Axiom
KW  - Bibliography
KW  - Characterization
KW  - Collective consciousness
KW  - Concept
KW  - Conformity
KW  - Conscience
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Contingency (philosophy)
KW  - Critical consciousness
KW  - Cultural history
KW  - Curriculum
KW  - Deontological ethics
KW  - Dialectic
KW  - Doctrine
KW  - Edition (book)
KW  - Elucidation
KW  - Exegesis
KW  - Exemplification
KW  - Experimental literature
KW  - Explanation
KW  - F. R. Leavis
KW  - Generative grammar
KW  - Hermeneutic circle
KW  - Historical sociology
KW  - Idiolect
KW  - Idiom
KW  - Intention
KW  - Intentionality
KW  - Lingua franca
KW  - Linguistic prescription
KW  - Linguistic relativity
KW  - Literariness
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Literary element
KW  - Literary language
KW  - Literary theory
KW  - Logic
KW  - Modernism
KW  - Monograph
KW  - Morality
KW  - Narrative logic
KW  - Oral literature
KW  - Persuasion
KW  - Phenomenology (philosophy)
KW  - Philology
KW  - Philosophy of language
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Pronoun
KW  - Referent
KW  - Sociology of literature
KW  - Speech act
KW  - Subjectivism
KW  - Syntagma (linguistics)
KW  - Text (literary theory)
KW  - The Textbooks
KW  - Theory of Literature
KW  - Theory
KW  - Universality (philosophy)
KW  - Ut pictura poesis
KW  - V
KW  - Value judgment
KW  - What Is Literature?
KW  - World literature
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; INTRODUCTION What Remains of Our Loves? --; CHAPTER 1 Literature --; CHAPTER 2 The Author --; CHAPTER 3 The World --; CHAPTER 4 The Reader --; CHAPTER 5 Style --; CHAPTER 6 History --; CHAPTER 7 Value --; CONCLUSION The Theoretical Adventure --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - An engaging introduction to contemporary debates in literary theoryIn the late twentieth century, the common sense approach to literature was deemed naïve. Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the author, and Hillis Miller declared that all interpretation is theoretical. In many a literature department, graduate students spent far more time on Derrida and Foucault than on Shakespeare and Milton. Despite this, common sense approaches to literature—including the belief that literature represents reality and authorial intentions matter—have resisted theory with tenacity. As a result, argues Antoine Compagnon, theorists have gone to extremes, boxed themselves into paradoxes, and distanced others from their ideas. Eloquently assessing the accomplishments and failings of literary theory, Compagnon ultimately defends the methods and goals of a theoretical commitment tempered by the wisdom of common sense.The book is organized not by school of thought but around seven central questions: literariness, the author, the world, the reader, style, history, and value. What makes a work literature? Does fiction imitate reality? Is the reader present in the text? What constitutes style? Is the context in which a work is written important to its apprehension? Are literary values universal?As he examines how theory has wrestled these themes, Compagnon establishes not a simple middle-ground but a state of productive tension between high theory and common sense. The result is a book that will be met with both controversy and sighs of relief
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691268347?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691268347
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691268347/original
ER  -