{ "item_title" : "Investigations Into the Literary Use of Language", "item_author" : [" Maurice Merleau-Ponty", "Bryan Smyth "], "item_description" : "A closely annotated translation of Merleau-Ponty's lecture notes on literary languageInvestigations into the Literary Use of Language presents an annotated translation of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's lecture notes from one of the two courses that he gave during his inaugural year teaching at the Coll ge de France. In his notes from the concurrent course, The Sensible World and the World of Expression, Merleau-Ponty contends that our embodied perceptual engagement with the sensible world already involves the same spontaneity that underlies cultural expression. Approaching it from the other side, he revisits here the analysis of language that he had undertaken in the unfinished manuscript The Prose of the World.Focusing on the work of Paul Val ry (1871-1945) and Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle, 1783-1842), Merleau-Ponty explores how the spontaneity of literary language sheds light on the relation between lived experience and language more broadly, and how cultural expression remains grounded in embodied perceptual experience in a way that is homologous yet irreducible to it. Specifically, Merleau-Ponty shows how Stendhal had already overcome Val ry's skepticism concerning literary sincerity by effectively incorporating what the latter called the linguistic implex--in effect, language as institution--and thus achieving a total style of improvisational spontaneity in which the conquering function characteristic of the literary use of language gives shape to an immanent model of political engagement. ", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/81/014/981/0810149818_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "36.00", "online_price" : "36.00", "our_price" : "36.00", "club_price" : "36.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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