Ann T Delehanty
Biographic Data
| ID | 2789212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann T Delehanty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann T |
| FAMILY NAME | Delehanty |
| SIGNATURE | DELEHANTY A T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Reed College and University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3594-3757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Textual Engagement with the Other in Cyrano de Bergerac's L'Autre Monde
This article argues that Cyrano de Bergerac's two novels, known collectively as L'Autre Monde , offer both a critique of efforts to categorize the Other in late seventeenth-century travel narratives, and a model for privileging an ethical, rather than definitional, approach to it. The first section, through an analysis of the scene where the narrator is mistakenly thought to be the female of an animal in the queen's zoo, shows how Cyrano lambasts…
Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France
Mapping the Aesthetic Mind
This essay shows how two early modern literary critics, John Dennis and Nicolas Boileau, sought to map out how the mind came to know the transcendental aspects of a literary work, specifically poetry. Both theorize a non-rational faculty rooted in sensible experience which is able to gain knowledge outside of reason's grasp. The essay argues that each writer uses a religious model to describe the profoundest intellectual effects of poetry. This a…
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Mapping the Aesthetic Mind
This essay shows how two early modern literary critics, John Dennis and Nicolas Boileau, sought to map out how the mind came to know the transcendental aspects of a literary work, specifically poetry. Both theorize a non-rational faculty rooted in sensible experience which is able to gain knowledge outside of reason's grasp. The essay argues that each writer uses a religious model to describe the profoundest intellectual effects of poetry. This a…
Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France
Textual Engagement with the Other in Cyrano de Bergerac's L'Autre Monde
This article argues that Cyrano de Bergerac's two novels, known collectively as L'Autre Monde , offer both a critique of efforts to categorize the Other in late seventeenth-century travel narratives, and a model for privileging an ethical, rather than definitional, approach to it. The first section, through an analysis of the scene where the narrator is mistakenly thought to be the female of an animal in the queen's zoo, shows how Cyrano lambasts…
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