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.


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.

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