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Literary and Linguistic Theories in Eighteenth-Century France: From Nuances to Impertinence

Literary and Linguistic Theories in Eighteenth-Century France: From Nuances to Impertinence

Nye, Edward

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Series: Oxford Modern Languages & Literature Monographs

Literary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0198160127
ISBN13: 9780198160120
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: May 10 2001
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Linguistic theories in the eighteenth-century are also theories of literature and art, and it is probably better, therefore, to think of them as aesthetic theories. As such, they are answers to the age-old question what is beauty?, but formulated, also, to respond to contemporary concerns. Edward Nye considers a wide range of authors from these two perspectives and draws the following conclusions: etymology is a theory of poetry, dictionaries of synonymy, prosody and metaphor are theories of preciosity, and Sensualism is a theory of artistic representation.

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