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The Phaedra Syndrome
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ISBN: 9051834896 9789051834895 9789004648180 Year: 1993 Publisher: Leiden ;Boston Brill

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Originating probably in some oral cautionary tale, the Phaedra story illustrates a peculiar pattern of transgression and retribution. This Phaedra syndrome provided inspiration for many major writers from Euripides to Gabriele d'Annunzio. The present book offers a close re-reading and a re-assessment of four acknowledged masterpieces - Euripides' Hippolutos, Seneca's Phaedra, Lope de Vega's Castigo sin venganza and Racine's Phèdre: together with Lope's Italian source. Matteo Bandello's Novella 44, they all deal with the old tale or none of its analogues. While paying minute comparative attention to the texts, it aims at clarifying the relevance of each work for the meandrous evolution of religious beliefs and ethical criteria in the history of European society, ranging from Democritus' effort to react against his contemporaries' archaic shame-culture attitudes to Latin Stoicism, to the syncretic Baroque outlook in siglo de oro drama and to the radical puritanical inwardness of French Jansenism. The last two chapters offer an original interpretation of Phèdre as the supreme poetic utterance of Racine's confusion and perplexity in front of the unresolved contradictions in his faith; a case is made in the Conclusion the view that the puzzled and puzzling mood of this mysterious play exemplifies the new mind-set that was paving the way for Enlightenment rationalism and the ensuing dechristianisation of the Western intelligentsia... Back Cover.


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African language literatures : an introduction to the literary history of Sub-Saharan Africa
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ISBN: 058264352X Year: 1981 Publisher: Harlow, Essex, England : Longman,

Afrique plurielle
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ISBN: 9051839723 9789051839722 9789004484726 9004484728 Year: 1996 Volume: 21 Publisher: Leiden;Boston BRILL

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Les textes rassemblés dans Afrique plurielle mettent en relief quelques aspects de la foisonnante diversité littéraire du continent. Commençant par l'Afrique dite "francophone", l'auteur évoque d'abord la littérature bilingue, arabe-français, du Maghreb; il décrit les rapports entre le roman sénégalais contemporain, la tradition locale d'historiographie arabe et les épopées orales en langues vernaculaires; il définit la spécificité littéraire du Zaïre, ancienne colonie belge. Un deuxième groupe d'essais initie le lecteur à des aspects peu connus des littératures anglophones et lusophones, s'attardant en passant à un des premiers maÎtres du roman africain, Thomas Mofolo. Les chapitres suivants traitent des problèmes linguistiques que rencontre l'écrivain africain écartelé entre trois modes d'expression: son idiome maternel, qui n'existe souvent que dans l'oralité, la langue européenne de l'ancien colonisateur, encore inaccessible à la majorité de son peuple, et le parler créole qui est en train de se développer dans les centres urbains. S'inspirant enfin de son expérience personnelle, Albert Gérard définit une méthode pour l'historiographie littéraire d'un continent dont presque chaque état est lui-même une entité complexe: polyethnique et plurilingue.

European-language writing in sub-Saharan Africa
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ISBN: 9630538326 9630538334 9630538342 9786613424204 9027274681 1283424207 9789630538329 9789027274687 9781283424202 661342420X Year: 1986 Volume: 6 6 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.

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The first major comparative study of African writing in western languages, European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Albert S. Gérard, falls into four wide-ranging sections: an overview of early contacts and colonial developments "Under Western Eyes"; chapters on "Black Consciousness" manifest in the debates over Panafricanism and Negritude; a group of essays on mental decolonization expressed in "Black Power" texts at the time of independence struggles; and finally "Comparative Vistas," sketching directions that future comparative study might explore. An introductory e


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Les tambours du néant : essai sur le problème existentiel dans le roman américain
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Year: 1969 Publisher: [Bruxelles] : La Renaissance du livre,

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L'idée romantique de la poésie en Angleterre; : études sur la théorie de la poésie chez Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats et Shelley
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Year: 1955 Volume: fasc. 136 Publisher: Paris : Les Belles Lettres,

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A la rencontre de Aldous Huxley
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Year: 1947 Publisher: La sixtaine,

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A la rencontre de John Steinbeck
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Year: 1947 Publisher: [Liège] : La Sixaine,

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English romantic poetry : ethos,structure, and symbol in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats
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Year: 1968 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Geschiedenis der oudheid en van België.
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Year: 1957 Publisher: Jemappes Rorive-Vannuffelle

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