03234nam 2200757Ia 450 991082097210332120200520144314.01-280-52318-20-19-536473-2(CKB)1000000000401666(EBL)273170(OCoLC)476015088(SSID)ssj0000307404(PQKBManifestationID)11925074(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000307404(PQKBWorkID)10244668(PQKB)11251028(MiAaPQ)EBC273170(Au-PeEL)EBL273170(CaPaEBR)ebr10278472(CaONFJC)MIL52318(OCoLC)466431546(OCoLC)13670267(FINmELB)ELB168401(EXLCZ)99100000000040166619870323d1987 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe puritan and the cynic moralists and theorists in French and American letters /Jefferson Humphries1st ed.New York Oxford University Press19871 online resource (viii, 113 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-504180-1 Includes bibliography and index.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; IndexThis book offers a comparative reading of the ways in which moral issues surface in French and American literature.French literatureHistory and criticismEthics in literatureLiterature and moralsDidactic literatureHistory and criticismAphorisms and apothegmsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureHistory and criticismComparative literatureFrench and AmericanComparative literatureAmerican and FrenchFrench literatureHistory and criticism.Ethics in literature.Literature and morals.Didactic literatureHistory and criticism.Aphorisms and apothegmsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Comparative literatureFrench and American.Comparative literatureAmerican and French.810.9353810/.9/353Humphries Jefferson1955-1681597MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820972103321The puritan and the cynic4051101UNINA