On Gide's PROMETHEE : : Private Myth and Public Mystification / / Kurt Weinberg.
Through a careful rendering of the text, deciphering its hidden ironies, Mr. Weinberg sees Prométhée as a modern allegory, a parable wrought of allusions, symbols, and images drawn from classical antiquity and calvinist theology, and a multi-leveled sotie à miroirs.Originally published in 1972.The P...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1972 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Essays in Literature ;
1684 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (162 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. Gide and the Novel
- One. A Divine Gratuity, or the Misfortunes of the Elect
- Two. On the Seesaw of Twin Predestination
- Three. "Histoire de Tityre"
- Four. Moral: The Liberating Leap Beyond History
- Bimiography
- Index
- List of Books in Series