Heroism and Passion in Literature: Studies in Honour of Moya Longstaffe
This volume, prompted by the publication in 1999 of Moya Longstaffe's remarkable study, Metamorphoses of Passion and the Heroic in French Literature: Corneille, Stendhal, Claudel, further investigates and analyses the multiple appearances of Passion and Heroism in literature. It pursues the exp...
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| Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft |
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| Place / Publishing House: | [Place of publication not identified] : Rodopi, 2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (294 pages) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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| Summary: | This volume, prompted by the publication in 1999 of Moya Longstaffe's remarkable study, Metamorphoses of Passion and the Heroic in French Literature: Corneille, Stendhal, Claudel, further investigates and analyses the multiple appearances of Passion and Heroism in literature. It pursues the exploration of these themes in a variety of cultures (English, French, German, Spanish), genres, and critical approaches. In addition, the chronological span represented is extremely wide. Contributions range from La Fontaine, Molie`re and Voltaire to Rimbaud and Camus; from Baudelaire to Beckett; from Wagner to Goytisolo. This very diversity gives necessary context, providing scope for reflection and analysis. Although passion seems timeless, can heroism have any real meaning - apart from an individual and existential one - in our postmodern age? Has a notion at the centre of European culture for so many centuries really disappeared from our intellectual and cultural universe? This volume will be of interest to all students of literature, whatever their critical or linguistic allegiance, since it focuses on the varying manifestations of two vital ingredients of all societies and cultures. |
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| ISBN: | 9401201579 1417566728 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |