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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.  Having examined the broad basis of Sartre's aesthetic theories, we must now turn to a more detailed examination of the specific critical criteria and themes implicit in his criticism itself. These themes in fact provide constant reference points throughout Sartre's critical writings; but since his attention will be focussed progressively more sharply on individual authors rather than diffused in numerous circumstantial articles, it is naturally in the earlier essays of Situations that such themes will reveal themselves most clearly as touchstones for a wide variety of critical judgements. I hope therefore in this chapter to demonstrate the origins of these critical themes in Sartre's writings, and also to show briefly their continuity in his later articles where they are often simply referred to rather than re-explored in any detail.

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