Continuum, Volume 1AMS Press, 1989 - French literature |
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... reason did not degenerate into sterile eighteenth - century cartesianism , he argued against Taine , 24 because it was contained by a preoccupation with form derived from the ancients , but wholly modernized ; as a result , art was ...
... reason did not degenerate into sterile eighteenth - century cartesianism , he argued against Taine , 24 because it was contained by a preoccupation with form derived from the ancients , but wholly modernized ; as a result , art was ...
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... reason , simplicity , and the cult of nature ; indeed , that the writers rightly enthroned as classical were but a small minority who did not represent " l'esprit du siècle , " since they privileged pleasure over rules , and feeling or ...
... reason , simplicity , and the cult of nature ; indeed , that the writers rightly enthroned as classical were but a small minority who did not represent " l'esprit du siècle , " since they privileged pleasure over rules , and feeling or ...
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... reason that — at least as far as we can tell - knows no distinction of sex ( Reiss , " Corneille " 10 ) . The other side of that reason , methodical doubt , aside from raising the hackles of the orthodox , must have had the effect of ...
... reason that — at least as far as we can tell - knows no distinction of sex ( Reiss , " Corneille " 10 ) . The other side of that reason , methodical doubt , aside from raising the hackles of the orthodox , must have had the effect of ...
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