Studies in seventeenth-century French literature : presented to Morris Bishop / edited by Jean-Jacques Demorest
1962, First Edition. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Review copy with publisher's complimentary slip loosely inserted.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 269 pages; Description: viii, 269p. ; frontis, port. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Bishop, Morris, (b.1893) --French literature --17th century --studies and criticism. Contents: Common-sense remarks on the French baroque, by H. Peyre. --Malherbe and his influence, by P. A. Wadsworth. --Saint-Amant, le poete sauve des eaux, by A. Seznec. --Corneille's Horace: a study in tragic and artistic ambivalence, by L. E. Harvey. --Attila redivivus, by G. May. --Pascal's sophistry and the sin of poesy, by J. -J. Demorest. --Human nature and institutions in Moliere's plots, by J. Doolittle. --Futility and self-deception in Le misanthrope, by J. D. Hubert. --"Les yeux de Cesar": the language of vision in Britannicus, by J. Brody. --Ariosto and La Fontaine: a literary affinity, by J. C. Lapp. --L'art poetique: "Long-temps plaire, et jamais ne lasser," by N. Edelman. --The literary arts of Longinus and Boileau, by H. M. Davidson. Item #173283
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