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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Table of Contents:
- Notes on the ContributorsMoya Longstaffe: A TributeBibliography of Moya Longstaffe's WritingsIntroductionPart One The Early Modern PeriodH.T. BARNWELL: Heroic Discourse? A Note on Racine's Be´re´niceAngela RYAN: The Lost Heroine and the Memetics of Cultural Inscription in Euripides's Hippolytus and Racine's Phe`dreJohn CAMPBELL: The Twilight of Heroism: Ambition and Ambitions in La Princesse de Cle`vesRobert McBRIDE : Le He´ros molie´resque et les pie`ges du langageJane McKEE; A Passion for the Scriptures: The Biblical Sonnets of Laurent DrelincourtMarite´ OUBRIER : La Fontaine: Anti-Hero or Reluctant Hero?Graham GARGETT : Voltaire's L'Inge´nu, the Journal chre´tien and Saint-Foix: A New Source for Hercule de Kerkabon?Part Two The Nineteenth CenturyBrian Keith-Smith: A Germanic Hero Par Excellence? Richard Wagner in ParisAnne JUDGE and Solange LAMOTHE: Stendhal's Style and the Expression of Passion and HeroismElisabeth M. LILLIE: Heroes of the Mind: The Intellectual Elite in the Work of Ernest RenanJohn McCANN : Heroism and Villainy in Les Fleurs du MalHenri GODIN : Bel-Ami: poste´rite´ d'un he´rosPart Three The Twentieth CenturyMarie-Jose´phine WHITAKER : Rimbaud, Claudel: la passion du voyageAlan GABBEY: The 'Last Great Voice of Soldierly Heroism' and the Philosophy of Rationalism: Pe´guy on DescartesMichael R. JONES: The Passion of Adam von Trott: the Heroic Stance of the ForeignMinister of the German ResistanceJohn H. GILLESPIE: Camus's Passionate HeroesGerard M. MACKLIN: (Un)Sung Heroes in the Drama of Samuel BeckettAngela CHAMBERS: Prophets and Heroes: Ideology and Aesthetics in Aime´ Ce´saire's PoeticStanley BLACK: The Author as Hero in the New World Order: The Power of Fictionality in Goytisolo's El sitio de los sitiosRichard YORK: Evelyn Waugh's Farewell to HeroismPhilip TAYLOR: A Passion for Debate: French Communist Party Internal Opposition from Garaudy to FitermanPo´l O´ DOCHARTAIGH: Jewish Outsiders as Anti-Heroes in Jurek Becker's NovelsIndex.