The thematics of commitment : the tower & the plain / P.M. Cryle.

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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.

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 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 paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback 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.

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