Author: DEMOREST, JEAN-JACQUES [ED.]
Title: Studies in seventeenth-century French literature : presented to Morris Bishop / edited by Jean-Jacques Demorest
Description: Ithaca. N.Y. : Cornell University Press 1962. 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. Review copy with publisher's complimentary slip loosely inserted.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 269 pages; Description: viii. 269p. ; frontis. port. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Bishop. Morris. (b.1893) --French literature --17th century --studies and criticism. Contents: Common-sense remarks on the French baroque. by H. Peyre. --Malherbe and his influence. by P. A. Wadsworth. --Saint-Amant. le poete sauve des eaux. by A. Seznec. --Corneille's Horace: a study in tragic and artistic ambivalence. by L. E. Harvey. --Attila redivivus. by G. May. --Pascal's sophistry and the sin of poesy. by J. -J. Demorest. --Human nature and institutions in Moliere's plots. by J. Doolittle. --Futility and self-deception in Le misanthrope. by J. D. Hubert. --'Les yeux de Cesar': the language of vision in Britannicus. by J. Brody. --Ariosto and La Fontaine: a literary affinity. by J. C. Lapp. --L'art poetique: 'Long-temps plaire. et jamais ne lasser.' by N. Edelman. --The literary arts of Longinus and Boileau. by H. M. Davidson.Weight in Kg appr.:

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