Histoire d’histoires

Considerations sur l'histoire tragique du premier XVIIe siecle

by Sergio Poli, translated by Chiara Rolla

Book cover: Histoire d’histoires

Extent: 341 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Lire le XVIIe siecle

Series volume number: 43, 5

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(June 2016)

ISBN: 9782406058304

Price: $45.00

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This essay offers a panorama of the tragic story in the seventeenth century, when it exerted great influence. The analysis shows how narrative structures evolved and it highlights the features of a poetics of crisis in which sentimentalism and horror are combined ? a poetics which, in fact, marks the beginning of modernity.

Sergio Poli, professeur de francais a l’universite de Genes, s’est occupe de la fiction narrative du XVII siecle, en particulier de l’histoire tragique. Il s’est aussi interesse a la lexicographie et a l’impact des technologies de l’information et de la communication sur les sciences humaines. Chiara Rolla, ancienne eleve de Sergio Poli, est chercheur a l’universite de Genes. Elle s’occupe de traduction, de la fiction narrative du XVII siecle et de l’impact de la culture classique sur l’ecriture contemporaine.

  • By (author) Sergio Poli
  • Translated by Chiara Rolla