|
COPYRIGHT 2004 Modern Humanities Research Association
Metre et rythmes du vers classique: Corneille et Racine. By VALERIE BEAUDOUIN (Lettres Numeriques, 11) Paris: Champion. 2002. 620 pp. 80 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0509-3.
As Valerie observes in her introduction, previous formal studies of the classical alexandrine have been limited to corpora of no more than 1,000 lines. With this, the published version of her doctoral thesis (2000), supervised by Jacques Roubaud, Beaudouin studies the complete dramatic works of Corneille and Racine, a corpus of 77,000 lines. An empirical study of such unprecedented magnitude...
Read the full article for free courtesy of your local library.
|
Bookmark this article
Print this article
Link to this article
Email this article
Digg It!
Add to del.icio.us
RSS
