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Committed literature (French: littérature engagée) can be defined as an approach of an author, poet, novelist, playwright or composer who commits their work to defend or assert an ethical, political, social, ideological or religious view, most often through their works but also can loosely be defined as being through their direct intervention ...
Since Sartre’s essay What is Literature? there has been less theoretical debate about committed and autonomous literature. Nevertheless, the controversy over commitment remains urgent, so far as anything that merely concerns the life of the mind can be today, as opposed to sheer human survival.
Since literature is committed, and in response to his critics who asked if poetry, painting and music are too to be committed, Sartre replies: “No […] and why would we want to?
Speech act theory transforms philosophical debate by regarding poetry in terms of action, showing that its business is primarily to do things. The proposal can sharpen our understanding of types of poetry; examples of the ‘Chaucer-Type’ and its variants demonstrate this.
through poems, plays and novels. A clear propensity for propaganda through literature emerges in times of social turmoil in which the poor exploited masses agitate to secure social and political rights. At such a time, committed writers decide to merge their voices with those of the large mobilised masses. In the act of
The Freedom of Commitment: The Role of the Writer in Sartre’s What is Literature? Ali Hassanpour Darbandi. 2020. The commitment of literature stirred up controversy in the face of European cataclysm of the post-war period. The significance of literature in political spheres fell under suspicion.
Until recently, literary history has indeed tended to present twentieth-century British literature as either autonomous or committed. Such a position certainly needs qualification since in matters of autonomy and commitment one should beware of strong dichotomies.
