Audience, Intention, and Rhetoric in Pascal and Simone Weil: 22 (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures) - Hardcover

Stokes, Thomas L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820422606 ISBN 13: 9780820422602

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1996

Synopsis

Pascal began in the seventeenth century a quest that Simone Weil continued in the twentieth: searching and «waiting» (as Simone Weil put it) for God. For each of them it was both a personal and a public quest. In reaching into their own experience, they felt the need to reach out to that of others. This book is about that quest, both private and public, and the concerns which ensued from it: audience (who are they writing for?), intention (why are they writing?), and rhetoric (how are they writing what they have to say?).

About this title

Synopsis:

Examines the quest for God, both public and private, begun by Pascal in the 17th century and continued by Simone Weil in the 20th century, looking at audience, intention, and rhetoric in their writings and their uses of language. Details their uses of metaphor, key words and phases, repetition, words with related meanings, and ambiguity, and analyz

About the Author:

The Author: Thomas Stokes holds a Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and teaches in the Department of Modern Languages at Wabash College. His scholarly interests center on the French -moraliste- tradition."

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0820422606
• ISBN 13: 9780820422602
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 170