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Part of the book: Sartre's Theory of Literature

Christina Howells

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 14

Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract.  The basis of Sartre's aesthetic theories is laid in his phenomenological study of the imagination, published in 1940. An understanding of this work and its implications is essential for a proper appreciation of Sartre's ideas on art. It is, moreover, in this work of psychology that many of the paradoxes of his later aesthetics originate.

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