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On Gide's PROMETHEE: Private Myth and Public Mystification
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Full Title:
On Gide's PROMETHEE: Private Myth and Public Mystification
Contributors:
By (Author) Kurt Weinberg
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
19th May 2015
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)
Dewey:
843.912
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
162
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
227g
Description
Through a careful rendering of the text, deciphering its hidden ironies, Mr. Weinberg sees Promethee as a modern allegory, a parable wrought of allusions, symbols, and images drawn from classical antiquity and calvinist theology, and a multi-leveled sotie a miroirs. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-
