Chateaubriand—Critic of the French Renaissance

Autor:	Carlos Lynes
Rok vydání:	1947
Předmět:	Literature Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory business.industry media_common.quotation_subject The Renaissance Art business Language and Linguistics media_common
Zdroj:	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 62:422-435
ISSN:	1938-1530 0030-8129
DOI:	10.1632/459271
Popis:	As a critic of French letters, Chateaubriand desired above all to inaugurate a new literature which, rejecting the eighteenth century of the philosophes, would rejoin the fruitful tradition of the golden age that had produced such masters as Bossuet and Racine. His aim was no uninspired copying of seventeenth-century forms, but rather the creation of fresh masterpieces informed with the Christian, dualistic conception of man's nature which had been disregarded by the anti-religious eighteenth-century followers of French classicism. New elements from the national and Christian heritage were to be introduced, but the essential was to be the revival of what Chateaubriand judged to be the true spirit of the grand siècle.
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