{"product_id":"the-price-of-literature-patrick-m-bray-9780810139329","title":"The Price of Literature: The French Novel's Theoretical Turn","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Price of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e examines the presence of theory in the nineteenth-century French novel, something Proust likened to leaving a price tag on a gift. Emerging after the French Revolution, what we now call literature was conceived as an art liberated from representational constraints. Patrick M. Bray shows how literature's freedom to represent anything at all has meant, paradoxically, that it cannot articulate a coherent theory of itself--unless this theory is a necessarily subversive literary representation, or \"the novel's theoretical turn.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Literary thought, or the theory produced by the text, can only function by exploring what escapes dominant representations. \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes how certain iconic texts from the nineteenth century (by Mme de Staël, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Proust) perform a theoretical turn to claim the freedom to represent anything in the world, but also literature's ability to transform the world it represents. The conclusion advances a new way of thinking about literary scholarship--one based on how literature redistributes ways of writing by lending form to thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick M. Bray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810139324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810139329\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2019","brand":"Patrick M. Bray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096745156863,"sku":"9780810139329","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-price-of-literature-patrick-m-bray-9780810139329","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}