Leo Spitzer

Klappentext This translation brings together for the first time in any language all of Spitzer's work on the literature of seventeenth-century France Zusammenfassung David Bellos's introduction sets Spitzer's method of textual and stylistic interpretation in its historical context and sketches out the career of this supremely knowledgeable reader for whom knowledge was less important than understanding. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; A note on this edition; Leo Spitzer: An Introduction; Bibliography; 1. Racine's Classical piano; 2. Saint-Simon's Portrait of Louis XIV; 3. Corneille's Polyeucte and the Vie de Saint Alexis; 4. The art of transition in La Fontaine; 5. The 'Récit de Théramène' in Racine's Phèdre; 6. The Lettres portugaises; List of references; Indexes.

Product details

• Authors: Bellos, David Bellos
• Assisted by: David Bellos (Editor), Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521289719
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28971-9
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French Ca
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies