The Tragedy of Origins: Pierre Corneille & Historical Perspective [Hardcover]

John Lyons (Author)

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John D. Lyons is Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia. He is the author, most recently, of Exemplum: The Rhetoric of Example in Early-Modern France and Italy (Princeton, l990), and he has co-edited several volumes on early-modern literature and culture.

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (August 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0804726167
ISBN-13: 978-0804726160
Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,354,902 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Birth Marks: The Tragedy of Primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille, and Jean Racine (New Cultural Studies) by Richard E. Goodkin on 4 pages
Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance France by Timothy Hampton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth: Hercules at the Crossroads (Studies in European Cultural Transition) by Christopher Braider on page 139, and Back Matter
Culture and Authority in the Baroque (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series) by Massimo Ciavolella in Back Matter

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