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Book The Call of Blood in French Classical Tragedy

Download or read book The Call of Blood in French Classical Tragedy written by Clifton Cherpack and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Call of Blood in French Classical Tragedy  by Clifton Cherpack

Download or read book The Call of Blood in French Classical Tragedy by Clifton Cherpack written by Clifton Cherpack and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Call of Blood in French Classical Tragedy

Download or read book The Call of Blood in French Classical Tragedy written by Clifton Cherpack and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction to French Classical Tragedy

Download or read book Introduction to French Classical Tragedy written by C.J. Gossip and published by Springer. This book was released on 1981-06-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eighteenth century Literary History

Download or read book Eighteenth century Literary History written by Marshall Brown and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on eighteenth-century literature from MLQ.

Book Studies in French classical Tragedy

Download or read book Studies in French classical Tragedy written by Lacy Lockert and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume contains studies not only of Corneille's and Racine's tragedies but also of the best work of the lesser French-classical tragic dramatists, too generally neglected, to whom more than half of the book is devoted. Its author brings to his tasks of presentation, criticism, and appraisal a wider acquaintance, perhaps, with the drama of many lands and times than anyone who has previously written at any considerable length on the subject of French-classical tragedy. To the desirable perspective thus obtained, he joins an appreciation of good plays of every type, without prejudice either for or against any type of drama. Numerous, often lengthy, quoted passages (with an English verse translation accompanying the French in every case) exemplify the achievement and exhibit the qualities of the dramas and dramatists discussed. That portion of the author's critical work in this field which has already appeared, as introductions in his volumes of translated plays, has been much appreciated, as witness the following brief excerpts from reviews of those books: "The plays...are discussed with insight and enthusiasm."--(London) Notes and Queries. "Refreshingly original and yet free from specious pleading or naïve enthusiasm."--Chattanooga Times. "Thoughtful, discerning appraisals."--Seventeenth Century News. "An excellent critical introduction."--The Library Journal. "A judicious introduction."--Arthur Knodel in The Personalist. "The very best interpretative treatment of Corneille that has appeared."--C. Maxwell Lancaster.

Book Philippe Quinault  Dramatist

Download or read book Philippe Quinault Dramatist written by William Brooks and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault's librettos, but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he has never been the subject of a monograph in English. There is a need to re-assess the influence of his life on his plays, and to re-evaluate Gros's findings in the light of eighty years' research into seventeenth-century French theatre in general. This book rejects the deterministic approach that sees his plays as apprentice pieces for the greater achievement that is his corpus of librettos, as well as the implicit comparative approach that pigeon-holes his work, in passing, by borrowing from the pithy judgements of Boileau. To what extent does Quinault's steady move away from comedy and light tragi-comedy to tragedies that combine love and menace go hand in hand with his search for greater integrity, better characterisation, and ever more credible plotting? How did he come to create and retain a tremendously faithful audience that even the withering mockery of Boileau failed to discourage? And is there any purpose in retaining the time-worn comparison between the author of Andromaque and the author of Astrate?

Book Sympathy

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  • Author : Eric Schliesser
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0199928894
  • Pages : 455 pages

Download or read book Sympathy written by Eric Schliesser and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a historical overview of some of the most significant attempts to come to grips with sympathy in Western thought from Plato to experimental economics. The contributors are leading scholars in philosophy, classics, history, economics, comparative literature, and political science.

Book Love and Providence

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  • Author : Silvia Montiglio
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0199916047
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Love and Providence written by Silvia Montiglio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and Providence provides the first study of the recognition scene in Greek "romantic" novels and its significance in the ancient literary tradition.

Book Giambattista Della Porta  Dramatist

Download or read book Giambattista Della Porta Dramatist written by Louise George Clubb and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Renaissance scholars generally agree that Della Porta was the finest comic playwright of his generation in Italy, no detailed analysis of these plays and of their considerable influence outside Italy has previously appeared. One of the most famous men of his time in the field of scientific investigation, Della Porta wrote plays for relaxation and, on occasion, to camouflage controversial aspects of his scientific research from the Inquisitions. Today his works in science are largely forgotten and his right to fame rests on the plays. This book brings together the available facts of Della Porta's rich and often mysterious life and closely examines his dramatic works as part of the Italian literary scene in late Renaissance. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Homage to Paul B  nichou

Download or read book Homage to Paul B nichou written by Sylvie Romanowski and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Patient Griselda Myth

Download or read book The Patient Griselda Myth written by Madeline Rüegg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 14th until the 19th century the last novella of Boccaccio’s Decameron, also known as the Griselda story, has been translated and adapted countless times in many European languages. This story’s success can be explained by considering it a myth and analysing how this myth engages with contemporary discourses, such as the definition of the ideal wife, the querelle des femmes, the socio-political consequences of social exogamy, and tyranny.

Book Dissonant Harmonies

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  • Author : Susan Read Baker
  • Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9783823346012
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Dissonant Harmonies written by Susan Read Baker and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1990 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voltaire and the Century of Light

Download or read book Voltaire and the Century of Light written by Alfred Owen Aldridge and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking an approach different from (hat of earlier biographers, A. Owen Aldridge examines Voltaire's literary and intellectual career chronologically, using the methods both of comparative literature and of the history of ideas. The resulting biography portrays a fascinating personality as well as a great writer and thinker. Voltaire is revealed not only through his correspondence, here extensively quoted, but through the statements others made about him in anecdotes, memoirs, and other contemporary documents. New information is introduced regarding Voltaire's sojourn in England, his later relations with English men of letters, his domestic turmoils at the court of Frederick the Great, and his contact with French contemporaries such as Montesquieu and Diderot. For the first time in any biography, attention is given to Voltaire's extensive knowledge of Spanish literature and its influence on his own work, particularly Candide. Voltaire is portrayed as a conscious participant in the Enlightenment. In his early years he was interested primarily in aesthetics and abstract philosophy; later, he passionately dedicated himself to humanitarian causes with ideological implications. Professor Aldridge brings forward evidence pointing to the contrast between these two periods in Voltaire's life. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Handbook of Literary Rhetoric

Download or read book Handbook of Literary Rhetoric written by Heinrich Lausberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997-12-31 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lausberg's "Handbook of Literary Rhetoric" is an internationally acclaimed, standard reference work on rhetorical techniques in classical literature, ancient and modern. This translation makes it available for the first time to the English-speaking world.

Book The Culture of the Body

Download or read book The Culture of the Body written by Dalia Judovitz and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-05-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live anatomical entity to disembodied, mechanical and virtual analogs. The study ranges from Baroque, pre-Cartesian interpretations of body and embodiment, to the Cartesian elaboration of ontological difference and mind-body dualism, and it concludes with the parodic and violent aftermath of this legacy to the French Enlightenment. It engages work by philosophical authors such as Montaigne, Descartes and La Mettrie, as well as literary works by d'Urfé, Corneille and the Marquis de Sade. The examination of sexuality and the emergence of sexual difference as a dominant mode of embodiment are central to the book's overall design. The work is informed by philosophical accounts of the body (Nietzsche, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty), by feminist theory (Butler, Irigaray, Bordo), as well as by literary and cultural historians (Scarry, Stewart, Bynum, etc.) and historians of science (Canguilhem, Pagel, and Temkin), among others. It will appeal to scholars of literature, philosophy, French studies, critical theory, feminist theory, cultural historians and historians of science and technology. Dalia Judovitz is Professor of French, Emory University. She is also author of Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit and Subjectivity and Representation in Decartes: The Origins of Modernity.

Book Arion

Download or read book Arion written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: