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Literature and the Continuances of Virtue / Warner Berthoff.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 478Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1987Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (308 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691610092
  • 9781400858309
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801 19
LOC classification:
  • PN49
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE. Virtue and the Tasks of Criticism -- TWO. Virtue: A Short History -- THREE. "Our Means Will Make Us Means": Hamlet and All's Well That Ends Well -- FOUR. "What Do Other Men Matter to the Passionate Man?": The Charterhouse of Parma -- FIVE. "Why Does One Thing Happen and Not Another?": The Man Without Qualities -- Six. The Analogies of Lyric: Shelley, Yeats, Frank O'Hara -- Afterword: On Some Arguments of Yves Bonnefoy -- Index
Summary: Virtue, as used here, connotes integrity--that living force that issues from persons, societies, or texts in consequence of their accomplishing their distinctive ends. Professor Berthoff outlines the descent of the intuition of virtue from classical times into our own era and examines it as a formative presence in a series of major literary works.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE. Virtue and the Tasks of Criticism -- TWO. Virtue: A Short History -- THREE. "Our Means Will Make Us Means": Hamlet and All's Well That Ends Well -- FOUR. "What Do Other Men Matter to the Passionate Man?": The Charterhouse of Parma -- FIVE. "Why Does One Thing Happen and Not Another?": The Man Without Qualities -- Six. The Analogies of Lyric: Shelley, Yeats, Frank O'Hara -- Afterword: On Some Arguments of Yves Bonnefoy -- Index

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Virtue, as used here, connotes integrity--that living force that issues from persons, societies, or texts in consequence of their accomplishing their distinctive ends. Professor Berthoff outlines the descent of the intuition of virtue from classical times into our own era and examines it as a formative presence in a series of major literary works.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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