Resistance to Culture in Molière, Laclos, Flaubert, and Camus
Author: Larry W. Riggs
Publisher: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese four authors are studied as exemplars of a literature of negation of dominant trends in modern culture and of a certain conception of literature. Specifically, each is shown to write in order to contest the post-Renaissance ideology of instrumentalist rationalism.