{"product_id":"the-price-of-literature-9780810139329","title":"The Price of Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the presence of theory in the nineteenth-century French novel. Emerging after the French Revolution, what we call literature was conceived as an art liberated from representational constraints. Patrick Bray shows how literature's freedom to represent anything has meant, paradoxically, that it cannot articulate a coherent theory of itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers an original, sound and clever approach to literary works, as a profound and better understanding of theoretical importance of Literature in the creative nature of thought over the mechanical habits of our reading, and of the ‘a-disciplinarity' of literature.\"\" - Jacques Neefs, James M. Beall Professor of French Literature at Johns Hopkins University","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083659878743,"sku":"9780810139329","price":37.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810139329.jpg?v=1725549629","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-price-of-literature-9780810139329","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}