| Evariste-Désiré de Parny, 'Le Paradis perdu' Contributor(s): Robertson, Ritchie (Editor), Seth, Catriona (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0947623906 ISBN-13: 9780947623906 Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback Language: French Published: June 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 841.5 |
| Series: Modern Humanities Research Association. Critical Texts; Mhra |
| Physical Information: 0.21" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.34 lbs) 102 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Evariste-D sir de Parny, though largely forgotten now, was well known in the nineteenth century for his lyric poems, especially the Po sies Erotiques (1778-81), and the prose-poems in Chansons Mad casses (1787). He also wrote much humorous verse, including the anti-religious La Guerre des Dieux (1799) and Le Paradis perdu (1805). The latter is a parody of Milton's Paradise Lost in four relatively short cantos. It gives a central place to the War in Heaven, casting Satan as a revolutionary. It is highly entertaining in itself, and also an important example of parody as critical response to an original text. |