L’Abeille et la Balance

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by Irene Langlet, consultant editor Pierre Glaudes

Book cover: L’Abeille et la Balance

Extent: 374 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Theorie de la litterature

Series volume number: 12

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(February 2016)

ISBN: 9782406056669

Price: $55.00

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The essay flourished independently of the reign of fiction and literary absolutism, preserving the utopian stance which was at its root. The construction of a theory of the essay led to the development of essayist thinking that was anti-genre or non-genre and called upon an esthetic model of conditional literarity. The outcome of this meta-poetic study is to clarify the essay’s ideology.

  • By (author) Irene Langlet
  • Consultant editor Pierre Glaudes