LEADER 03167nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910820972103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-52318-2 010 $a0-19-536473-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000401666 035 $a(EBL)273170 035 $a(OCoLC)476015088 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000307404 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11925074 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000307404 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10244668 035 $a(PQKB)11251028 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC273170 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL273170 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10278472 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL52318 035 $a(OCoLC)466431546 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000401666 100 $a19870323d1987 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe puritan and the cynic $emoralists and theorists in French and American letters /$fJefferson Humphries 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1987 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 113 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-19-504180-1 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aThis book offers a comparative reading of the ways in which moral issues surface in French and American literature. 606 $aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEthics in literature 606 $aLiterature and morals 606 $aDidactic literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAphorisms and apothegms$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aComparative literature$xFrench and American 606 $aComparative literature$xAmerican and French 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEthics in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and morals. 615 0$aDidactic literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAphorisms and apothegms$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aComparative literature$xFrench and American. 615 0$aComparative literature$xAmerican and French. 676 $a810.9353 676 $a810/.9/353 700 $aHumphries$b Jefferson$f1955-$01681597 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820972103321 996 $aThe puritan and the cynic$94051101 997 $aUNINA