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Autore |
Humphries Jefferson <1955-> |
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Titolo |
The puritan and the cynic : moralists and theorists in French and American letters / / Jefferson Humphries |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1987 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-52318-2 |
0-19-536473-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 113 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book offers a comparative reading of the ways in which moral issues surface in French and American literature. |
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