1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910824279003321

Autore

Kayne Richard S.

Titolo

Connectedness and binary branching / / Richard S. Kayne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht ; ; Holland : , : Foris Publications, , 1984

ISBN

3-11-168222-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2016]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages)

Collana

Studies in Generative Grammar ; ; 16

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Generative grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Extensions of Binding and Case- Marking -- Chapter 2. Two Notes on the NIC -- Chapter 3. ECP Extensions -- Chapter 4. Binding, Quantifiers, Clitics and Control -- Chapter 5. On Certain Differences between French and English -- Chapter 6. A Similarity between Government and Binding -- Chapter 7. Unambiguous Paths -- Chapter 8. Connectedness -- Chapter 9. Datives in French and English -- Chapter 10. Chains, categories external to S, and French complex inversion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- General Index



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973591003321

Autore

Recker Jo Ann Marie

Titolo

"Appelle-moi Pierrot" : wit and irony in the Lettres of Madame de Sévigné / / Jo Ann Marie Recker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1986

ISBN

1-283-35896-4

9786613358967

90-272-7923-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (138 pages)

Collana

Purdue University monographs in Romance languages, , 0165-8743 ; ; v. 21

Disciplina

846/.4

Soggetti

Authors, French - 17th century

French letters - History and criticism

Comic, The, in literature

Irony in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""APPELLE-MOI PIERROT"" Wit and Irony in the Lettres of Madame de Sévigné; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Transitions; 2.  Mask: ""Portrait""; 3. Speech: ""Fantaisie verbale""; 4.  Scene: Imposteur Technique; Notes; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

The present study uses modern Molière criticism as a way of understanding Mme de Sévigné. In both Molière and Mme de Sévigné there is evidence of esprit or wit, that intellectual facility which perceives contrasts. Moliéresque critical theory would call this perception the "Imposteur" technique. As the opening lines of Molière's Lettre sur l'Imposteur propose, it is a "discours du ridicule" where ridicule is defined as the incongruous and the unreasonable. This notion depends on an act of intelligent judgement of what actually constitutes the normatively reasonable, and consequently, it presupposes the same perspective on the part of the reader/spectator. Implicit to both irony and ridicule is the complementarity necessary between the giver and the receiver of the message. The application of



moliéresque critical theory to the Correspondance of Mme de Sévigné can contribute to a renewed appreciation of the highly intellectual quality of the comic genius of a "spirituelle marquise," a mother who desperately wanted to entice a distanced daughter to regularity in an epistolary exchange, a woman of wit and irony.