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The Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel
Herman Meyer
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Description for The Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel
Hardback. Editor(s): Ziolkowski, Theodore. Translator(s): Ziolkowski, Yetta. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
This work, which has had a pronounced impact on European literary scholarship since its publication in 1961, represents a new and imaginative approach to the history and poetics of the novel. Emil Staiger, dean of Swiss critics, describes Professor Meyer as ...a literary historian, who has a sense for the mixture of seriousness and playfulness in literature, who can talk seriously about the play and ironically about the seriousness ...who has at his disposal the most thorough knowledge and never becomes ponderous ...writes easily and gracefully. The art of quoting is traced in Rabelais, Cervantes, and Sterne, ... Read more
This work, which has had a pronounced impact on European literary scholarship since its publication in 1961, represents a new and imaginative approach to the history and poetics of the novel. Emil Staiger, dean of Swiss critics, describes Professor Meyer as ...a literary historian, who has a sense for the mixture of seriousness and playfulness in literature, who can talk seriously about the play and ironically about the seriousness ...who has at his disposal the most thorough knowledge and never becomes ponderous ...writes easily and gracefully. The art of quoting is traced in Rabelais, Cervantes, and Sterne, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Condition
New
Weight
570 g
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691649351
SKU
V9780691649351
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