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Literary knowing in neoclassical France : from poetics to aesthetics /

This book, spanning the years 1650-1730 in France and England, looks primarily at the history of literary criticism during that period in order to show how the rising interest in the sublime pushes literary critics to entirely alter their approach to theorizing works of literature. It provides a new...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Delehanty, Ann T.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press, 2013.
Collection:Transits (Bucknell University)
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Mimesis and transcendence
  • The heart's knowledge in Pascal
  • Divine and human creation in Bouhours
  • Boileau and the sublime
  • From transcendence to virtue in Rapin
  • Dennis's theory of mind
  • Dubos and the faculty of sentiment.