TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Francis-Noël
TI  - The Writer Writing: Philosophic Acts in Literature
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400863303
AV  - PN81 
U1  - 801 20
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Critique
KW  - criticism
KW  - aat
KW  - literary criticism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Semiotics & Theory
KW  - fast
KW  - Languages & Literatures
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Literature - General
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - 7
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Cover; List of Illustrations ; Foreword ; Preface; Acknowledgments ; CHAPTER ONE ; The Writer Writing; CHAPTER TWO ; 'Intentions' and 'Purposes'; Interpretation and Actions; Intention and Historical Interpretation; Purpose and Literary Art; CHAPTER THREE; Parody' or the Imitation of Disciplines; CHAPTER FOUR ; Explanations; ""Scientific"" Explanation; ""Processive"" Explanation; CHAPTER FIVE; Bernard Shaw: Historical Explanation; ""A Frankly Doctrinal Theatre""; G.B.S; G.B.S. in the Theater; G.B.S. as Historian; Saint Joan: The Argument and Function of the Preface; The Scope of the Play; The Play of Saint Joan: Structure and MechanismThe Epilogue; CHAPTER SIX; Marcel Proust: Psychological Explanation; The Book and the Man; ""Psychology in Space and Time""; The Syllabus of Errors; The Triumph of the Will; The Historical Author, the Narrator, and Their Books; CHAPTER SEVEN; Historical Interpretation: The Face of the Muse and the Baker's Daughter ; Notes; Index
N2  - 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
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