French Writers in the Context of Uroš Petrović’s Literary-Critical Method

Authors

  • Jelena Novaković Faculty of Philology University of Belgrade

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18485/kis.2024.56.184.1

Keywords:

literary history, literary-critical method, French classicism, Louis XIV, Racine, La Bruyère, La Fontaine, Madame de Lafayette, Saint-Simon, Fléchier, Stendhal, Hippolyte Taine

Abstract

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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Published

2025-03-28

Issue

Section

Readings of tradition

How to Cite

French Writers in the Context of Uroš Petrović’s Literary-Critical Method. (2025). Literary History — Journal of Literary Studies, 56(184), 9–24. https://doi.org/10.18485/kis.2024.56.184.1