A Stage For Poets : : Studies in the Theatre of Hugo and Musset / / Charles Affron.

In the nineteenth century, the French lyric poets imposed their diction on the theatrical genre and thus illuminated the essence of both poetry and theatre. Ten plays by Victor Hugo, the standard-bearer of the French romantic theatre, and Alfred de Musset, the romantic playwright most frequently per...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1971
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Essays in Literature ; 1474
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Physical Description:1 online resource (276 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • One. Introduction: The Problem of a Poetic Theatre
  • Two. The Time of the Lyric: Hernani
  • Three. The Time of the Epic: Les Bur Graves
  • Four. Lyric Echoes: Nostalgia And Parody Torquemada And Mangeront-Us?
  • Five. Analogy and Sentiment: La Nuit Venitienne and Andre Del Sarto
  • Six. From Rhetoric to Poetry: Les Caprices De Marianne
  • Seven. The Order of Poetry: Fantasio
  • Eight. Time and Identity: On Ne Badine Pas Avec Xamour
  • Nine. Heroism and Art: Lorenzaccio
  • Ten. Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • A Selected Bibliography
  • Index