Author : Jean Starobinski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674076471
It is the task of art, he contends, to make the most of these conventions, to use the very disguises of civilization to counter the barbarism they mask. Tracing this idea through seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, Starobinski charts the historical and intellectual limits of criticism itself.".