The puritan and the cynic : moralists and theorists in French and American letters / Jefferson Humphries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Humphries, Jefferson, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--History and criticism.

French literature.

Ethics in literature.

Literature and morals.

Didactic literature--History and criticism.

Didactic literature.

Aphorisms and apothegms--History and criticism.

Aphorisms and apothegms.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Comparative literature--French and American.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--American and French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 113 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers a comparative reading of the ways in which moral issues surface in French and American literature.

Contents:

Contents; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-52318-2

0-19-536473-2

OCLC:

476015088