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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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Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1987 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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.: | 9910820972103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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