...David L. Sedley This article interprets Madame de Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves as a response to Blaise Pascal’s arithmetic triangle. Pascal used the numbers of the triangle to determine how to divide fairly the stakes of an interrupted game of chance. He called his method “the geometry...

...” of the previous century? It would seem that the only assertion possible in answer to such questions is that there is no direct reference to Blaise Pascal on which to base any future study of the literary relations between these authors. University of Michigan ...

... Pascal, and Nicolas Boileau. Christopher Braider’s analyses intend to show that however much these men’s work may have been inflected by his subtitle’s (post-­Descartes) reason, it is above all the many varieties of actual material experience that give their work its abiding weight and meaning...

... : Clarendon . Pascal Blaise . 1954 . Œuvres complètes . Edited by Chevalier Jacques . Paris : Gallimard . Pascal Blaise . 1962 . Pensées . Edited by Lafuma Louis . Paris : Seuil . Pascal Blaise . 1991 . Pensées . Edited by Sellier Philippe . Paris...

...”; Peter Bayley, “A Reading of the First Liasse”; Roland A. Champagne, “Toward a Semiotics of Blaise Pascal’s Pensies: A Model for Geometrical and Rhetorical Persuasions”; Bruce H. Davis, “Resisting the Pull: Pierre Nicole on the Inclination to Sin.” ...

... on theater to Blaise Pascal’s Lettres provinciales, Racine suggested not only their failure to measure up to Pascal’s standard but also the risibly narcissistic motive behind their composition: Nicole’s desire to usurp Pascal’s rightful place as the preeminent literary exponent of the Jansenist...

.... Johnson’s big book is a freshly conceived bid to tell it through very close, firsthand scrutiny of works from an appropriate range of authors, genres, and languages — Luis de Góngora, Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Shakespeare, Descartes, and Blaise Pascal receive extended...

... is a freshly conceived bid to tell it through very close, firsthand scrutiny of works from an appropriate range of authors, genres, and languages — Luis de Góngora, Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Shakespeare, Descartes, and Blaise Pascal receive extended attention, with other figures...

... is a freshly conceived bid to tell it through very close, firsthand scrutiny of works from an appropriate range of authors, genres, and languages — Luis de Góngora, Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Shakespeare, Descartes, and Blaise Pascal receive extended attention, with other figures...

... is a freshly conceived bid to tell it through very close, firsthand scrutiny of works from an appropriate range of authors, genres, and languages — Luis de Góngora, Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Shakespeare, Descartes, and Blaise Pascal receive extended attention, with other figures...

... it to say that the passage not only ironizes the Protestant spiritual autobiographical narrative, as Adela Pinch ( 1996 : 42) shows, but, more specifically, recasts Blaise Pascal’s ( 1966 : 88) fragment 198/693 to ironize Pascal’s apparent “despair” at the “wretched state of man.” Further, the questions...

... . Blaise Clark . 1981 . “ A Novel of India’s Coming of Age .” New York Times , April 19 . movies2.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-midnight.html . Casanova Pascale . 2007 . The World Republic of Letters , translated by DeBevoise M. B. Cambridge, MA : Harvard...

... and the Classics , 3rd ser., 14 , no. 3 : 61 – 98 . Pascal Blaise . 1999 . “Pensées” and Other Writings , translated by Levi Honor . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Passannante Gerard . 2011 . The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition . Chicago...

... still farther from fiction, expanded the ISS, and added new series like Pulpit Commentary, which printed Bible books alongside extensive exegesis, and Parchment Library, which republished ancient and modern classics in luxurious vellum. 9 With the exception of Paul’s own Thoughts of Blaise Pascal...

... poetry, many theorists of world literature have noted poetry’s imperviousness to their project. Pascale Casanova ( 2004 : 53) stands for this view when she claims that “since poetry is associated much more strongly than other literary genres with national traditions, it has typically been regarded...

..., Descartes, Pascal, the questionable French baroque, and even more Diderot, Rousseau, the great concepts of the Age of Enlightenment HENRI PEYRE 19 (happiness, science, progress, the crisis in ethics, the sentimental and sensual liberation) appear...