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 | | Literary and Linguistic Theories in Eighteenth-Century France: From Nuances to Impertinence (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) by Edward Nye ISBN-10: 9780198160120 ISBN-10: 0-19-816012-7 ISBN-13: 9780198160120 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-816012-0 Hardcover 2001-05-10 Oxford University Press, USA Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description "Linguistic" theories in the eighteenth-century are also theories of literature and art, and it is probably better, therefore, to think of them as "aesthetic" theories. As such, they are answers to the age-old question "what is beauty?," but formulated, also, to respond to contemporary concerns. Edward Nye considers a wide range of authors from these two perspectives and draws the following conclusions: etymology is a theory of poetry, dictionaries of synonymy, prosody and metaphor are theories of preciosity, and Sensualism is a theory of artistic representation. | ||