Antoine Compagnon Books
The five paradoxes of modernity
Early in the nineteenth century Hegel pronounced that the greatness of art was past and that art was at an end. Is it this end, Antoine Compagnon asks, that we are now witnessing, almost two centur...
Read MoreLiterature, theory, and common sense
"In the late twentieth century, the commonsense approach to literature was deemed naive. Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the author, and Hillis Miller declared that all interpretation is the...
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