The puritan and the cynic : moralists and theorists in French and American letters / / Jefferson Humphries

• Autore: Humphries Jefferson <1955->
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1987
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 113 pages)
• Disciplina: 810.9353; 810/.9/353
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers a comparative reading of the ways in which moral issues surface in French and American literature.
• Titolo autorizzato: The puritan and the cynic
• ISBN: 1-280-52318-2; 0-19-536473-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784883403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II