Audience, Intention, and Rhetoric in Pascal and Simone Weil (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures) - Hardcover

Stokes, Thomas

 
9780820422602: Audience, Intention, and Rhetoric in Pascal and Simone Weil (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0820422606 ISBN 13: 9780820422602
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

Pascal began in the seventeenth century a quest that Simone Weil continued in the twentieth: searching and «waiting» (as Simone Weil put it) for God. For each of them it was both a personal and a public quest. In reaching into their own experience, they felt the need to reach out to that of others. This book is about that quest, both private and public, and the concerns which ensued from it: audience (who are they writing for?), intention (why are they writing?), and rhetoric (how are they writing what they have to say?).

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About the Author

The Author: Thomas Stokes holds a Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and teaches in the Department of Modern Languages at Wabash College. His scholarly interests center on the French «moraliste» tradition.

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Publisher
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0820422606
ISBN 13 
9780820422602
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
170