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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458149403321

Autore

Humphries Jefferson <1955->

Titolo

The puritan and the cynic [[electronic resource] ] : moralists and theorists in French and American letters / / Jefferson Humphries

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1987

ISBN

1-280-52318-2

0-19-536473-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (126 p.)

Disciplina

810.9353

810/.9/353

Soggetti

French literature - History and criticism

Ethics in literature

Literature and morals

Didactic literature - History and criticism

Aphorisms and apothegms - History and criticism

American literature - History and criticism

Comparative literature - French and American

Comparative literature - American and French

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction: The Golden Age of Aphorism; The Mad Judge, or Manners without Morals: From La Rochefoucauld's mot juste to Chamfort's mot fou; The World According to Poor Richard; 2 Aphorism and Theology: Blaise Pascal, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the Sorcery of Rhetoric; 3 Aphorism and Literary Epistemology: Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man, and Marcel Proust; 4 Aphorism and Criticism: Deconstruction and the Commonplace Tradition; 5 Aphorism and Fable: La Fontaine and Joel Chandler Harris; 6 Aphorism and Modern Poetry: The Advent of the Antimaxim; 7 Afterword; Works Cited

IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a comparative reading of the ways in which moral issues surface in French and American literature.