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

This book offers a comparative reading of the ways in which moral issues surface in French and American literature
eBook, English, 1987
Oxford University Press, New York, 1987
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (viii, 113 pages)
9780195364736, 9780195041804, 9781280523182, 9786610523184, 0195364732, 0195041801, 1280523182, 6610523185
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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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English