On the Use and Abuse of Literature for Life

The essay aims to develop an argument about plots of love and desire in bourgeois modernity. taking the cue from two sample novels: Sentimental education by Flaubert and Lolita by Nabokov. The theoretical framework regards the relationship between literature and experience, between perception and it...

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Main Author: Federico Bertoni
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Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Cagliari 2013-06-01
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