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Heroism and passion in literature : studies in honour of Moya Longstaffe / edited by Graham Gargett.
Van Pelt Library PN56.H45 H477 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 0929-6999 ; 77.
- Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 77
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heroes in literature.
- Courage in literature.
- Emotions in literature.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 282 pages : portrait ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2004.
- Language Note:
- 15 English, 3 French contributions.
- Contents:
- Moya Longstaffe: A Tribute 1
- Part 1 The Early Modern Period
- Heroic Discourse? A Note on Racine's Berenice / H.T. Barnwell 21
- The Lost Heroine and the Memetics of Cultural Inscription in Euripides's Hippolytus and Racine's Phedre / Angela Ryan 33
- The Twilight of Heroism: Ambition and Ambitions in La Princesse de Cleves / John Campbell 47
- Le Heros molieresque et les pieges du langage / Robert McBride 57
- A Passion for the Scriptures: The Biblical Sonnets of Laurent Drelincourt / Jane McKee 67
- La Fontaine: Anti-Hero or Reluctant Hero? / Marite Oubrier 81
- Voltaire's L'Ingenu, the Journal chretien and Saint-Foix: A New Source for Hercule de Kerkabon? / Graham Gargett 91
- Part 2 The Nineteenth Century
- A Germanic Hero Par Excellence? Richard Wagner in Paris / Brian Keith-Smith 105
- Stendhal's Style and the Expression of Passion and Heroism / Anne Judge, Solange Lamothe 117
- Heroes of the Mind: The Intellectual Elite in the Work of Ernest Renan / Elisabeth M. Lillie 133
- Heroism and Villainy in Les Fleurs du Mal / John McCann 145
- Bel-Ami: posterite d'un heros / Henri Godin 157
- Part 3 The Twentieth Century
- Rimbaud, Claudel: la passion du voyage / Marie-Josephine Whitaker 161
- The 'Last Great Voice of Soldierly Heroism' and the Philosophy of Rationalism: Peguy on Descartes / Alan Gabbey 173
- The Passion of Adam von Trott: the Heroic Stance of the Foreign Minister of the German Resistance / Michael R. Jones 185
- Camus's Passionate Heroes / John H. Gillespie 197
- (Un)Sung Heroes in the Drama of Samuel Beckett / Gerard M. Macklin 209
- Prophets and Heroes: Ideology and Aesthetics in Aime Cesaire's Poetic / Angela Chambers 221
- The Author as Hero in the New World Order: The Power of Fictionality in Goytisolo's El sitio de los sitios / Stanley Black 233
- Evelyn Waugh's Farewell to Heroism / Richard York 245
- A Passion for Debate: French Communist Party Internal Opposition from Garaudy to Fiterman / Philip Taylor 255
- Jewish Outsiders as Anti-Heroes in Jurek Becker's Novels / Pol O Dochartaigh 269.
- Notes:
- Festschrift.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9042016922
- OCLC:
- 56334296
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