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Art of the Persian Letters - Unlocking Montesquieu''s ''Secret Chain''

English · Hardback

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Some thirty years after the initial publication of Montesquieu's Persian Letters in 1721, the author hinted at the presence of 'a secret, and somehow unnoticed, chain' tying together this entertaining, insightful, yet disparate collection of fictional letters to and from two Persian travelers in France. In The Art of the Persian Letters Randolph Runyon takes the chain metaphor seriously, showing that the chain is not thematic but linguistic and structural, as each letter is linked to its neighbors on either side by echoing words and situations.


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Randolph Paul Runyon is professor of French at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Product details

Authors Randolph Runyon, Randolph Paul Runyon
Publisher Rowman and Littlefield
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2019
 
EAN 9781611492767
ISBN 978-1-61149-276-7
No. of pages 289
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Literary reference works

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