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... Princeton University Marivaux, A Study in Eighteenth-Century Sensibility. By RUTH KIRBY JAMIESON. New York: King’s Crown Press (a branch of the Columbia University Press), 1942. Pp. 202. One of the characteristics of modern eighteenth-century schol- arship is to stress more...

... reduce the value of the work considerably, though it is still a useful compilation of Gracibn’s main notions, analyzed and defined within the above-mentioned limits. E. VON RICHTHOFEN Uttiversity of Alberta The Theater of Marivaux...

...Joy Palacios Abstract Although Marivaux’s oeuvre is typically assigned a passive role in relation to the social norms represented in his plays, and Marivaux himself is not depicted as a participant in debates about the moral standing of the theater, or la querelle de la moralité du théâtre , his...

...- graphy of Luigi Riccoboni), are not pursued here; Marivaux’s influence is traced through many comparisons of plots. Since Kenneth McKee does not hesitate to judge in very definite terms, there ca.11 be differences of opinion. Would everyone agree that Le Legs has no plot and Les Sincires...

... reduce the value of the work considerably, though it is still a useful compilation of Gracibn’s main notions, analyzed and defined within the above-mentioned limits. E. VON RICHTHOFEN Uttiversity of Alberta The Theater of Marivaux...

...-Amhicaine, VIII [ 19311, 428-30). Preliminary to the discussion and history of his fiction, the author has written two chapters on Marivaux and PrCvost, and to these chapters he conveniently refers for influence and similarity as his history unfolds. These chapters are interesting...

.... 526 MLQ I December iggg connection between “the moment” and pleasure, whether sentimental or sexual. The idea of pleasure discussed in the first chapter, on Marivaux’s Le Jeu de l’umour et du hasard, is sentimental (“lovewhile in the second chap...

... Scarron, Lesage, and Marivaux to Joseph Andrews. From Alter’s account one could not guess that Fielding had written a major work of comic fiction and theorized about this “species of writing” seven years before Tom Jones, or that Marivaux or Richardson existed. In the synoptic final chapter...

...) and “consciously set out” to assimilate the picaresque into the epic (p. 103) fly in the face of his own formulation of a different tradition of fiction descending from Cervantes through Scarron, Lesage, and Marivaux to Joseph Andrews. From Alter’s account one could not guess that Fielding had written...

... the subject. Thanks to her, the nature of Marivaux’ sensibility is now clear. His relationship in the movement of sensi- bility needs further amplification. One dares not suggest that she should rewrite Professor Trahard’s four tomes. With her basic assumptions and her careful method she is certainly...

...William D. Templeman Lionel Trilling. New York: Columbia University Press; London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1949. Pp. 465. $5.00. Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 368 Reviezers Stendhal to say, “Lisez la Marianne de Marivaux; cela...

... of Au- thors” lists Baculard D’Arnaud and Pigault-Lebrun, but not Pre- vost, Marivaux, or Riccoboni. Of the German, the “Index” lists Grosse, Kahlert, Kotzebue, Kramer, and Lafontaine ; but not Cramer, Kerndorffer, Raspe, Vulpius, or Wachter (Veit Weber). If, however, you know...

...-Lebrun, but not Pre- vost, Marivaux, or Riccoboni. Of the German, the “Index” lists Grosse, Kahlert, Kotzebue, Kramer, and Lafontaine ; but not Cramer, Kerndorffer, Raspe, Vulpius, or Wachter (Veit Weber). If, however, you know the titles of the English translations of these foreign...

..., and the student of sixteenth-century French life will consult it with profit. MAURICE EDGAR COINDREAU Princeton University Marivaux, A Study in Eighteenth-Century Sensibility. By RUTH KIRBY JAMIESON. New York: King’s Crown Press (a branch of the Columbia...

... to the era of Marivaux and Beau- marchais. It is instructive, and rather disturbing, to compare Professor Lancaster’s study of the Parisian theater from 1680 to 1715 (i.e., his Sunset together with the final volumes of his History 01 French Dramatic Literature) with that other monumental...

..., Molihre, Marivaux, Dostomsky, Meredith), and a Schluss- betrachtung which summarizes the relationships between Der Unbestech- liche and Hofmannsthal’sother comedies. ROGERC NORTON State University of New York Binghamton Wandlung der...

... Joseph Koth”; Norbert Altenhofer, “Die Komoclie der Wahrheit: Zur Vorgeschichte eines Kleistschen Motivs bei Marivaux”; Frank G. Kyder, “Holderlin’s Spondee-True or False U lrich K. Goldsmith, “Dirt or Marble? Bertolt Brecht’s Lyrical Poetry”; Hermann J. Weigand...

... : The Ballades of Franqois Villon. New York: Philosophical Library, 1955. Pp. xiv + 65. $3.50. DeIoffre, FredCric (editor). Marivaux : Le Petit-Maitre CorrigC. Texte publiC avec une introduction et commentaire. Geneve : Librairie Droz ; Lille : Librai- rie Giard, Textes Litteraires Franqais, 1955...

..., Molihre, Marivaux, Dostomsky, Meredith), and a Schluss- betrachtung which summarizes the relationships between Der Unbestech- liche and Hofmannsthal’sother comedies. ROGERC NORTON State University of New York Binghamton Wandlung der...

... University Studies in the Humanities, no. 7, 1941. Pp. ix + 218. $2.50. Fess, Gilbert Malcolm. The American Revolution in Creative French Literature ( 1775-1937). Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Studies, XVI, no. 2, 1941. Pp. 119. $1.25. Jamieson, Ruth Kirby. Marivaux...