Author: Abbé Prévost
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271089350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
With The Greek Girl’s Story, Alan Singerman presents the first reliable, stand-alone translation and critical edition of Abbé Prévost’s 1740 literary masterpiece Histoire d’une Grecque moderne. The text of this new English translation is based on Singerman’s 1990 French edition, which Jonathan Walsh called “arguably the most valuable critical edition” of Prévost’s novel to date. This new edition also includes a complete critical apparatus comprising a substantial introduction, notes, appendixes, and bibliography, all significantly updated from the 1990 French edition, taking into account recent scholarship on this work and providing some additional reflection on the question of Orientalism. Prévost’s roman à clef is based on a true story involving the French ambassador to the Ottoman Porte from 1699 to 1711. It is narrated from the ambassador’s viewpoint and is a model of subjective, unreliable narration (long before Henry James). It is remarkably modern in its presentation of an enigmatic, ambiguous character, as the truth about the heroine can never be established with certainty. It is the story of the tormented relationship between the diplomat and a beautiful young Greek concubine, Théophé, whom he frees from a pasha’s harem. While her benefactor becomes increasingly infatuated with her and bent on becoming her lover, the Greek girl becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming a virtuous and respected woman. Viewing the ambassador as a father figure, she condemns his quasi-incestuous passion and firmly rejects his repeated seduction attempts. Unable to possess the young woman or tolerate the thought that she might grant to someone else what she has refused him, the narrator subjects her behavior to minute scrutiny in an effort to catch her in an indiscretion. His investigations are fruitless, however, and Théophé, the victim of incessant persecution, simply dies, leaving all the questions about her behavior unanswered.
The Greek Girl's Story
Author: Abbé Prévost
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271089350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
With The Greek Girl’s Story, Alan Singerman presents the first reliable, stand-alone translation and critical edition of Abbé Prévost’s 1740 literary masterpiece Histoire d’une Grecque moderne. The text of this new English translation is based on Singerman’s 1990 French edition, which Jonathan Walsh called “arguably the most valuable critical edition” of Prévost’s novel to date. This new edition also includes a complete critical apparatus comprising a substantial introduction, notes, appendixes, and bibliography, all significantly updated from the 1990 French edition, taking into account recent scholarship on this work and providing some additional reflection on the question of Orientalism. Prévost’s roman à clef is based on a true story involving the French ambassador to the Ottoman Porte from 1699 to 1711. It is narrated from the ambassador’s viewpoint and is a model of subjective, unreliable narration (long before Henry James). It is remarkably modern in its presentation of an enigmatic, ambiguous character, as the truth about the heroine can never be established with certainty. It is the story of the tormented relationship between the diplomat and a beautiful young Greek concubine, Théophé, whom he frees from a pasha’s harem. While her benefactor becomes increasingly infatuated with her and bent on becoming her lover, the Greek girl becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming a virtuous and respected woman. Viewing the ambassador as a father figure, she condemns his quasi-incestuous passion and firmly rejects his repeated seduction attempts. Unable to possess the young woman or tolerate the thought that she might grant to someone else what she has refused him, the narrator subjects her behavior to minute scrutiny in an effort to catch her in an indiscretion. His investigations are fruitless, however, and Théophé, the victim of incessant persecution, simply dies, leaving all the questions about her behavior unanswered.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271089350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
With The Greek Girl’s Story, Alan Singerman presents the first reliable, stand-alone translation and critical edition of Abbé Prévost’s 1740 literary masterpiece Histoire d’une Grecque moderne. The text of this new English translation is based on Singerman’s 1990 French edition, which Jonathan Walsh called “arguably the most valuable critical edition” of Prévost’s novel to date. This new edition also includes a complete critical apparatus comprising a substantial introduction, notes, appendixes, and bibliography, all significantly updated from the 1990 French edition, taking into account recent scholarship on this work and providing some additional reflection on the question of Orientalism. Prévost’s roman à clef is based on a true story involving the French ambassador to the Ottoman Porte from 1699 to 1711. It is narrated from the ambassador’s viewpoint and is a model of subjective, unreliable narration (long before Henry James). It is remarkably modern in its presentation of an enigmatic, ambiguous character, as the truth about the heroine can never be established with certainty. It is the story of the tormented relationship between the diplomat and a beautiful young Greek concubine, Théophé, whom he frees from a pasha’s harem. While her benefactor becomes increasingly infatuated with her and bent on becoming her lover, the Greek girl becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming a virtuous and respected woman. Viewing the ambassador as a father figure, she condemns his quasi-incestuous passion and firmly rejects his repeated seduction attempts. Unable to possess the young woman or tolerate the thought that she might grant to someone else what she has refused him, the narrator subjects her behavior to minute scrutiny in an effort to catch her in an indiscretion. His investigations are fruitless, however, and Théophé, the victim of incessant persecution, simply dies, leaving all the questions about her behavior unanswered.
The Abbe Prevost and English Literature
Author:
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Abbé Prévost's Histoire D'une Grecque Moderne
Author: Jonathan Walsh
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9781883479305
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Histoire d'une Grecque moderne is a masterpiece of ambiguity. Through the narrator's own bias and hypocrisy and through his "doubles" in the story who mirror or contrast with his character, Abbe Prevost deflates the patriarchal figures of eighteenth-century European society. The Oriental heroine's quest for intellectual and physical autonomy challenges such traditional authority figures as the aristocratic hero/narrator, the European imperialist, the "philosophe," and the writer who reflect Western sexual and cultural prejudices. Like the other novels of Prevost's 1740 trilogy (and even to a greater extent than in "Manon Lescaut"), "La Greque moderne" conveys a disturbing moral pessimism and indeterminancy that, in the end, the heroine's courage and determination cannot overcome. In an age of skepticism and increasing individualism, "La Greque moderne" seems to question the existence of any trustworthy model of moral authority.
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9781883479305
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Histoire d'une Grecque moderne is a masterpiece of ambiguity. Through the narrator's own bias and hypocrisy and through his "doubles" in the story who mirror or contrast with his character, Abbe Prevost deflates the patriarchal figures of eighteenth-century European society. The Oriental heroine's quest for intellectual and physical autonomy challenges such traditional authority figures as the aristocratic hero/narrator, the European imperialist, the "philosophe," and the writer who reflect Western sexual and cultural prejudices. Like the other novels of Prevost's 1740 trilogy (and even to a greater extent than in "Manon Lescaut"), "La Greque moderne" conveys a disturbing moral pessimism and indeterminancy that, in the end, the heroine's courage and determination cannot overcome. In an age of skepticism and increasing individualism, "La Greque moderne" seems to question the existence of any trustworthy model of moral authority.
The Abbé Prévost and English Literature
Author: George Remington Havens
Publisher: Corinthian Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher: Corinthian Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Dufresny. Fontenelle. Marivaux. Piron. The Abbe Prevost. Gentil-Bernard. Florian. Boufflers. Rivarol. Chevalier de la Clos. Gretry. Diderot. Boucher. Lantara. Louis XV. Mademoiselle de Camargo. Mademoiselle Guimard, a goddess of the opera. Sophie Arnould. Marie-Antoinette
Author: Arsène Houssaye
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
L'Abbé Prévost
Author: Richard A. Smernoff
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Biografie van de Franse schrijver (1697-1763)
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Biografie van de Franse schrijver (1697-1763)
Manon Lescaut
Author: Abbe Prevost
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789363050839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789363050839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Manon Lescaut, from the French of the Abbé Prévost, illustrated by Tony Johannot. [With a life of the author by the translator, D. C. Moylan.]
Author: abbé Prévost
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A Study of the Narrative Techniques of the Abbe Prevost as Illustrated in Manon Lescaut and L'Histoire D'une Grecque Moderne
Author: Patricia Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Narration (Rhetoric)
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Narration (Rhetoric)
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Abbé Prévost and English Literature
Author: George Remington Havens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description