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Convergences : rhetoric and poetic in seventeenth-century France : essays for Hugh M. Davidson

Print Book, English, ©1989
Ohio State University Press, Columbus, ©1989
Davidson, Hugh M
xx, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780814204689, 0814204686
19123547
Online version:
Vraie et fausse beauté dans l'esthétique au dix-septième siècle / Jean Mesnard
Sur le sens du mot "raison" au dix-septième siècle / Robert Garapon
Desmarets's "L'Art de la poésie" : poetics or politics? / H. Gaston Hall
Poetry and the comic : a subtle partnership / Odette de Mourgues
Corneille, Oedipus, Racine / Terence Cave
A theatrical reading of Cinna / Judd D. Hubert
"Docere et delectare" : richesses de l'Avare / Marie-Odile Sweetser
Doubling and omission in the text of Anne Ferrand-Bélise / Charles G.S. Williams
La Fontaine, Les Vautours et les pigeons (VII, 8) : an intertextual reading / Jules Brody
Generic modulation in consolations by Malherbe, Tristan l'Hermite, and Théophile de Viau / Robert T. Corum, Jr. Camera obscura : image and imagination in Descartes's Meditations / John D. Lyons
A reading of the first Liasse / Peter Bayley
Toward a semiotics of Blaise Pascal's Pensées : a model for geometrical and rhetorical persuasions / Roland A. Champagne
Resisting the pull : Pierre Nicole on the inclination to sin / Bruce H. Davis
English and French
Includes three essays in French