John D. Lyons Books
Exemplum: The Rhetoric Of Example In Early Modern France And Italy
John D. Lyons. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 289-311) And Index.
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The Phantom Of Chance: From Fortune To Randomness In Seventeenth-Century French Literature
## How the classical and medieval conceptions of Fortune shifted to the modern notion of chance Is chance nothing more than a projection of human desire on to the world? In this fascinating new stu...
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Unruly Examples: On The Rhetoric Of Exemplarity
By David Lloyd, J.Hillis Miller, Stephen G. Nichols, Thomas Keenan, Cathy Caruth, Ewa Ziarek, John D. Lyons, Herman Rapaport, Irene E. Harvey, Louis Marin, Alexander Gelley, Daniel Boyarin
This collection of twelve essays aims to demonstrate that while example has a rich genealogy in the rhetorical tradition, it also involves issues that are central to current theories of meaning and...
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Tragedy And The Return Of The Dead
By John D. Lyons, John D Lyons
Early modernity rediscovered tragedy in the dramas and the theoretical writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Attempting to make new tragic fictions, writers like Shakespeare, Webster, Hardy, C...
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Unruly Examples: On The Rhetoric Of Exemplarity
By David Lloyd, J.Hillis Miller, Stephen G. Nichols, Thomas Keenan, Cathy Caruth, Ewa Ziarek, John D. Lyons, Herman Rapaport, Irene E. Harvey, Louis Marin, Alexander Gelley, Daniel Boyarin
This collection of twelve essays aims to demonstrate that while example has a rich genealogy in the rhetorical tradition, it also involves issues that are central to current theories of meaning and...
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The Tragedy Of Origins: Pierre Corneille & Historical Perspective
Studying the relationship between tragedy and history in early modern France, this book focuses on the work of Pierre Corneille, who was more insistent on the importance of this relationship than a...
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Critical Tales: New Studies Of The "Heptameron" And Early Modern Culture
Appearing In Print For The First Time In 1558, The Book That We Now Know As The Heptameron Is The Work Of Marguerite, Queen Of Navarre. Left Incomplete, But Clearly Modeled On Boccaccio's Decameron...
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New England And Foreign Relations: 1789-1850
By Stephen G. Nichols, John D. Lyons, Paul A. Varg, Dartmouth Study Group In Medieval And Early Modern Romance Literatures (Hanover, N.H).
Paul A. Varg. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [247]-254.
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Mimesis: From Mirror To Method, Augustine To Descartes
Edited And With An Introduction By John D. Lyons And Stephen G. Nichols, Jr. This Series Of Essays Grows Out Of Contributions To The First Colloquium, Held In September 1981, By The Dartmouth Study...
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