Dissertations Contre Corneille

by L'Abbe d'Aubignac and edited by N. Hammond and Michael Hawcroft

Book cover: Dissertations Contre Corneille

Extent: 154 pages

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Exeter French Texts

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(January 1996)

ISBN: 9780859894937

5.83 x 8.27 inches

Price: $30.00

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Dissertations Contre Corneille chronicles one of the great literary controversies of seventeenth-century France. In 1663, FranCois HEdelin, l’abbE d’Aubignac, published four dissertations in which he criticised with increasing ferocity the most famous and greatest playwright of the century, Corneille.


Dissertations Contre Corneille chronicles one of the great literary controversies of seventeenth-century France. In 1663, FranCois HEdelin, l’abbE d’Aubignac, published four dissertations in which he criticised with increasing ferocity the most famous and greatest playwright of the century, Corneille. The first dissertation attacks Sophonisbe, the second Sertorius, the third Oedipe, and the fourth concentrates on the personality of Corneille. This is the first edition of these writings to be published since the eighteenth century, and will be of importance for scholars of seventeenth-century French literature.

Frontispice: Page de titre des deux premieres Dissertations, 1663 Introduction 1. Vie de l'Abbe d'Aubignac 2. Les Etapes de la Querelle de Sophonisbe 3. D'Aubignac Critique 4. Le Texte Bibliographie Dissertations Contre Corneille Premiere Dissertation Seconde Dissertation Troisieme Dissertation Quatrieme Dissertation Index

  • By (author) L’Abbe d’Aubignac
  • Edited by N Hammond
  • Edited by Michael Hawcroft