"Linguistic" theories in the eighteenth-century are also theories of literature and art, and it is probably better, therefore, to think of them as "aesthetic" theories. As such, they are answers to the age-old question "what is beauty?," but formulated, also, to respond to contemporary concerns. Edward Nye considers a wide range of authors from these two perspectives and draws the following conclusions: etymology is a theory of poetry, dictionaries of synonymy, prosody and metaphor are theories of preciosity, and Sensualism is a theory of artistic representation.
"Linguistic" theories in the eighteenth-century are also theories of literature and art, and it is probably better, therefore, to think of them as "ae...
La danse a inspire la litterature, et la litterature a inspire la danse. Mais comment fonctionne exactement l'articulation entre les deux, et quelles sont les consequences de leur reciprocite ? Cet ouvrage analyse ce lien depuis la Renaissance jusqu'a l'epoque moderne, de d'Aubigne a Francis Ponge, de la danse macabre a la theorie de Laban. La relation entre danse et litterature est variable : parfois elle se fonde sur un principe esthetique, parfois sur un principe thematique, ou bien sociologique. Quelque soit la nature de ce rapport, ce livre demontre qu'il est durable et riche de sens....
La danse a inspire la litterature, et la litterature a inspire la danse. Mais comment fonctionne exactement l'articulation entre les deux, et quelles ...
