Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment: Delimiting Genre

ISBN-13: 9781138620223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 330 str.

Fabienne Moore

Opis

The author's treatment of Bible criticism and eighteenth-century religious reform movements reveal the often-neglected spiritual side of Enlightenment culture, and tracks its contribution to the period's reflection about language and poetic invention. 

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Off limits: prose poems of the French enlightenment; Telemacomania; Prose vs. poetry; Birth of the poem in prose; Translation to the rescue; Back to the Bible; The Reformation; New rhythms; Conclusion; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Fabienne Moore is Associate Professor of French, at the University of Oregon.