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Heroism and passion in literature : studies in honour of Moya Longstaffe /

This volume, prompted by the publication in 1999 of Moya Longstaffe's remarkable study, Metamorphoses of Passion and the Heroic in French Literature: Corneille, Stendhal, Claudel, further investigates and analyses the multiple appearances of Passion and Heroism in literature. It pursues the exp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Longstaffe, Moya, Gargett, Graham
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2004.
Colección:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 77.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Moya Longstaffe: A Tribute
  • Bibliography of Moya Longstaffe's Writings
  • Introduction
  • Part One The Early Modern Period
  • H.T. BARNWELL: Heroic Discourse? A Note on Racine's Bérénice
  • Angela RYAN: The Lost Heroine and the Memetics of Cultural Inscription in Euripides's Hippolytus and Racine's Phèdre
  • John CAMPBELL: The Twilight of Heroism: Ambition and Ambitions in La Princesse de Clèves
  • Robert McBRIDE : Le Héros moliéresque et les pièges du langage
  • Jane McKEE; A Passion for the Scriptures: The Biblical Sonnets of Laurent Drelincourt
  • Marité OUBRIER : La Fontaine: Anti-Hero or Reluctant Hero?
  • Graham GARGETT : Voltaire's L'Ingénu, the Journal chrétien and Saint-Foix: A New Source for Hercule de Kerkabon?
  • Part Two The Nineteenth Century
  • Brian Keith-Smith: A Germanic Hero Par Excellence? Richard Wagner in Paris
  • Anne JUDGE and Solange LAMOTHE: Stendhal's Style and the Expression of Passion and Heroism
  • Elisabeth M. LILLIE: Heroes of the Mind: The Intellectual Elite in the Work of Ernest Renan
  • John McCANN : Heroism and Villainy in Les Fleurs du Mal
  • Henri GODIN : Bel-Ami: postérité d'un héros
  • Part Three The Twentieth Century
  • Marie-Joséphine WHITAKER : Rimbaud, Claudel: la passion du voyage
  • Alan GABBEY: The 'Last Great Voice of Soldierly Heroism' and the Philosophy of Rationalism: Péguy on Descartes
  • Michael R. JONES: The Passion of Adam von Trott: the Heroic Stance of the Foreign
  • Minister of the German Resistance
  • John H. GILLESPIE: Camus's Passionate Heroes
  • Gerard M. MACKLIN: (Un)Sung Heroes in the Drama of Samuel Beckett
  • Angela CHAMBERS: Prophets and Heroes: Ideology and Aesthetics in Aimé Césaire's Poetic
  • Stanley BLACK: The Author as Hero in the New World Order: The Power of Fictionality in Goytisolo's El sitio de los sitios
  • Richard YORK: Evelyn Waugh's Farewell to Heroism
  • Philip TAYLOR: A Passion for Debate: French Communist Party Internal Opposition from Garaudy to Fiterman
  • Pól Ó DOCHARTAIGH: Jewish Outsiders as Anti-Heroes in Jurek Becker's Novels
  • Index.