Le Paradis perdu [Paradise Lost] (Modern Humanities Research Association, Band 20) - Softcover

De Parny, Evariste-Désiré

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0947623906 ISBN 13: 9780947623906

Verlag: Texts and Translations, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Evariste-Désiré de Parny, though largely forgotten now, was well known in the nineteenth century for his lyric poems, especially the Poésies Erotiques (1778-81), and the prose-poems in Chansons Madécasses (1787). He also wrote much humorous verse, including the anti-religious La Guerre des Dieux (1799) and Le Paradis perdu (1805). The latter is a parody of Milton's Paradise Lost in four relatively short cantos. It gives a central place to the War in Heaven, casting Satan as a revolutionary. It is highly entertaining in itself, and also an important example of parody as critical response to an original text. This edition also provides an accurate brief account of Parny's life and works and the contemporary reception of the text; background material on the reception of Milton in France; and a critical account of how Parny's parody engages with what have often been perceived as literary and theological weaknesses, or problem areas, in Milton's text, with due reference to critical discussion of Milton in English. Text in French with introduction and notes in English.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Texts and Translations
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Französisch
• ISBN 10: 0947623906
• ISBN 13: 9780947623906
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 102
• Herausgeber: Robertson Ritchie, Seth Catriona
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