Author: LANGLOIS, WALTER G.
Title: The persistent voice : essays on Hellenism in French literature since the 18th century, in honour of Professor Henri M. Peyre / edited by Walter G. Langlois.
Description: New York : New York University Press 1971. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 217 pages; Physical desc. : 217 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: Peyre. Henri. 1901- . Hellenism in literature. French literature - Addresses. essays. lectures. Hellinism and French literature - History and criticism. French literature - Greek influences. Series: Histoire des idees et critique litteraire ; v.18. Contents: A 'philosophe' and antiquity: Voltaire's changing view of Plato / by Oscar Haac -- Rousseau's Idylle des Cerises: a metamorphosis of the pastoral idyll / by Mark J. Temmer -- A romantic view of the Hellenist past: Vigny's Daphne? / by Frank P. Bowman -- Zola's Hellenism / by Philip Walker -- Mallarme? and the Greeks / by Robert Greer Cohn -- Notes on Pe? guy and antiquity / by Basil Guy -- Gide and the assimilation of tragedy / by Wolfgang Holdheim -- Jean Giono's Greece: a kinship between distant ages / by Konrad Bieber -- Giraudoux's Hector: a hero's stand against heroism / by Rosette C. Lamont -- Sartre and the Greeks: a vicious magic circle / by A. Szogyi -- Anachronism in the modern theatre of myth / by Eric C. Hicks -- Malraux and the Greek ideal / by Walter G. Langlois.Weight in Kg appr.:

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