1st Edition
Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment Delimiting Genre
By Fabienne Moore
Copyright 2009
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
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By examining nearly sixty works, the author traces the prehistory of the French prose poem, demonstrating that the disquiet of some eighteenth-century writers with the Enlightenment gave rise to the genre nearly a century before it is habitually supposed to have existed. In the throes of momentous scientific, philosophical, and socioeconomic changes, Enlightenment authors turned to the past to... Read more
Contents: Introduction: Off limits: prose poems of the French enlightenment; Telemacomania; Prose vs. poetry; Birth of the poem in prose; Translation to the rescue; Back to the Bible; The Reformation; New rhythms; Conclusion; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Fabienne Moore is Associate Professor of French, at the University of Oregon.
