Author: TertullianPublisher:
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Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Apology. De Spectaculis. With an English Translation by T.R. Glover. Minucius Felix. With an English Translation by Gerald H. Rendall, Based on the Unfinished Version by W.C.A. Kerr
Author: TertullianPublisher:
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Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy
Author: Emilia Wilton-GodberffordePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317097424
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The first book-length study devoted to this topic, Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy offers an important contribution to scholarship on the theatre as well as on early modern attitudes in France, specifically on the subject of lying and deception. Unusually for a scholarly work on seventeenth-century theatre, it is particularly alert to plays as performed pieces and not simply printed texts. The study also distinguishes itself by offering original readings of Molière alongside innovative analyses of other playwrights. The chapters offer fresh insights on well-known plays by Molière and Pierre Corneille but also invite readers to discover lesser-known works of the time (by writers such as Benserade, Thomas Corneille, Dufresny and Rotrou). Through comparative and sustained close readings, including a linguistic and speech act approach, a historical survey of texts with an analysis of different versions and a study of irony, the reader is shown the manifest ways in which different playwrights incorporate the comedic tropes of lying and scheming, confusion and unmasking. Drawing particular attention to the levels of communicative or mis-communicative exchanges on the character-to-character axis and the character-to-audience axis, this work examines the process whereby characters in the comedies construct narratives designed to trick, misdirect, dazzle, confuse or exploit their interlocutors. In the different incarnations of seducer, parasite, cross-dresser, duplicitous narrator/messenger and deluded mythomaniac, the author underscores the way in which the figure of the liar both entertains and troubles, making it a fascinating subject worthy of detailed investigation.
Tertullian: Apology and De spectaculis
Author: Quintus Septimus Florens TertullianusPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Tertullian, Apology, De Spectaculis
Author: TertullianPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
National Union Catalog
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ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The Classical World
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Author and Title Catalog
Author: Stanford University. Libraries. J. Henry Meyer Memorial LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Classical Weekly
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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