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On Gide's Promethee: Private Myth and Public Mystification

On Gide's Promethee: Private Myth and Public Mystification

Weinberg, Kurt

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Essays in Literature

Literary CriticismMythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 0691646643
ISBN13: 9780691646640
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Apr 19 2016
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Through a careful rendering of the text, deciphering its hidden ironies, Mr. Weinberg sees Prométhée as a modern allegory, a parable wrought of allusions, symbols, and images drawn from classical antiquity and calvinist theology, and a multi-leveled sotie à miroirs.

Originally published in 1972.

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