L'Esprit Créateur, Volume 22, Number 3 (Fall 1982). The Maxim
Softcover, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University, 1982. Good with No dust jacket as issued.
Publication contains some articles in French, others in English. Sound binding. Clean, slightly tanned pages. Wrappers have general shelf wear and light handling wear. Contents: Avant-propos - Richard L. Barnett. Rigolot, Montaigne's maxims: from the discourse of other to the expression of self. Muratore, Aphorism as discursive weaponry: Corneille's language of ammunition. Barnett, Maxim-al codes of minimal closure: Pascal's sequestered schema. van Delft, Sur le statut de la maxime au XVIIe siècle: esthétique et éthique dans L'Art poétique. Humphries, The mad judge, or manners without morals: from La Rochfoucauld's mot juste to Chamfort's mot fou. Undank, Contagions of truth: language and history in Les Egarements du coeur et de l'esprit. Pasco, Balzac and the art of the macro-emblem in Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes. Caws, Maximization with no margins: reading the commonplace. Reviews. ; 9.0" tall; 88 pages.
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