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La Grammaire Générale Et La Linguistique Générale : Étude Sur Le Rationalisme Et L'Empirisme Dans Les Théories Linguistiques Des Dix-Septième Et Dix-Huitième Siècles, Jacqueline Mcdonald Jan 1976

La Grammaire Générale Et La Linguistique Générale : Étude Sur Le Rationalisme Et L'Empirisme Dans Les Théories Linguistiques Des Dix-Septième Et Dix-Huitième Siècles, Jacqueline Mcdonald

Master's Theses

Le but de la présente étude est d'examiner la nature du problème de l'origine des langues, tel qu'il se présentait au dix-huitième siècle. Une attention particulière est accordée, d'une part, à la Grammaire générale et raisonnée de Port-Royal, et de l'autre aux théories empiriques, ceci enfin de distinguer les facteurs qui contribuèrent à l'élaboration d'une nouvelle philosophie linguistique.


Marivaux's La Voiture Embourbée: A Translation With Critical Introduction, Nancy L. Galbreath Jan 1976

Marivaux's La Voiture Embourbée: A Translation With Critical Introduction, Nancy L. Galbreath

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Critics treat the period of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century as a crucial transitional period in the development of prose fiction. A number of recent works deal with the struggles of novelists in this period to create a “better” fiction through experimentation with form and format. Rosbottom refers to the situation of fiction writing as “the crisis of literary forms,” and Deloffre as the “problem of romanesque illusion.” For examples of suggested solutions to various problems of fiction writing furnished by Marivaux's immediate predecessors and contemporaries, one need only look to the number of memoir and anecdotal novels …


The Art And Tradition Of Black Autobiography In The Eighteenth Century, Angelo Costanzo Jan 1976

The Art And Tradition Of Black Autobiography In The Eighteenth Century, Angelo Costanzo

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Recent interest in the autobiographical mode of writing has focused on almost all forms of fictional and nonfictional works of literature. Articles and books have appeared on religious and political authors, such as Malcolm X, Norman Mailer, and Eldridge Cleaver; while at the same time other studies have emerged dealing with the confessional mode in writing. Recent poets, such as Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Allen Ginsberg, who give various versions of their life stories in poems, have figured in many careful scrutinies of the confessional and autobiographical school of poetry, which goes back to William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman. …