Sartre

<p>This text provides an introduction to the historical and cultural context of Sartre and his work. It explores and explains the conflicting critical reactions to Sartre's work. A glossary of critical terms and cultural references provides background information.</p> <p>1. Of stones and stories - Sartre's "La Nausee" <em>Christopher Prendergast </em>2. "Une Autre espece de Livre" <em>Dominick LaCapra </em>3.<em> </em>Sartre's "La Nausee" - fragment of an analytical reading <em>Serge Doubrovsky </em> 4. "La Nausee" and the question of closure <em>Gerald Prince </em>5.<em> </em>Politics and the private self in Sartre's "Les Chemins de la Liberte" <em>Benyon John </em>6. Crime - a floating signifier in Sartre's "Les Mouches" <em>Charles D. Minahen </em>7. "Huis Clos" - distance and ambiguity <em>Rhiannon Goldthorpe</em> 8. Reference vs repetition, or the predicament of the actor <em>Michael Issacharoff 9. T</em>he revolutionary hero revisited <em>Pierre Verstraeten </em>10. Three methods in Sartre's literary criticism <em>Frederic Jameson</em> 11. Applying the tourniquet - Sartre and punning, <em>W.D. Redfern</em> 12. A parodic strategy - Sartre's "Les Mots" <em>Felicia Gordon </em>13. Philosophy and auto(bio)graphy - the exemplary case of Jean-Paul Sartre <em>Edouard Morot </em>14. The dialect of narcissism, <em>Douglas Collins</em> 15. The staging of desire <em>Andrew N. Leak</em></p>