| Choices and Conflicts: Essays on Literature and Existentialism Contributor(s): Stralen, Hans (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820466395 ISBN-13: 9780820466392 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2005043163 |
| Series: New Comparative Poetics |
| Physical Information: 241 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book approaches literary existentialism (1935-1960) from a philosophical point of view and provides a semantic frame through which the primary works of this movement can be interpreted. Readings of Sartre, Sabato, Camus, Boll, De Beauvoir, Nooteboom, and others emphasize the place and themes specific to each writer within literary existentialism as a whole. One of the most original features of this study is its focus on the central notion of 'engagement' after 1960. Having highlighted its waning in postmodernism, van Stralen then demonstrates the vigorous resurgence of this pivotal concept in postcolonial discourses. |
