On Gide''s Promethee - Private Myth and Public Mystification

Summary

Through a careful rendering of the text, deciphering its hidden ironies, Mr. Weinberg sees Promethee as a modern allegory, a parable wrought of allusions, symbols, and images drawn from classical antiquity and calvinist theology, and a multi-leveled sotie a miroirs. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-

Product details

• Authors: Kurt Weinberg, Weinberg Kurt
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2016
• EAN: 9780691646640
• ISBN: 978-0-691-64664-0
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; Princeton Essays in Literature
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); French, France, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Folklore, myths & legends, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology), LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form