French Writers in the Context of Uroš Petrović’s Literary-Critical Method
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https://doi.org/10.18485/kis.2024.56.184.1Keywords:
literary history, literary-critical method, French classicism, Louis XIV, Racine, La Bruyère, La Fontaine, Madame de Lafayette, Saint-Simon, Fléchier, Stendhal, Hippolyte TaineAbstract
This paper examines Uroš Petrović’s engagement with French literature, which he primarily approaches through his critical consideration of Hippolyte Taine’s essays on representatives of French classicism. The focus of the study is on seventeenth-century French writers: Racine, La Fontaine, Madame de Lafayette, La Bruyère, Saint-Simon, and Fléchier. Joining them is a nineteenth-century author, Stendhal, who interests Petrović less as a novelist and more as a precursor of Taine’s literary-critical method, based on the idea of the decisive influence of race, environment, and historical moment on literary creation.
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