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    Proust and Stendhal--a study in analogies
    (1931) Wilson, Clotilde; Frein, Pierre Joseph
    Proust is the intellectual child of Stendhal and has bespattered A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU with expressions of admiration for his master. In truth, he has taken over not only the methods hut the philosophy of his teacher. "Proust's inheritance from Stendhal is apparent on every page and acknowledged in scores of appreciative refer- ences to the master throughout the text." It is provocative assertions such as these, made boldly but without evidence, that have aroused my curiosity and stimulated a desire to analyze the two great writers, Proust and Stendhal with a view to discover whether or not a relationship does exist between them and if so, to determine its exact nature.
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    Some considerations of Georges Duhamel's volumes of World War I
    (1963) Skinner, Harold E.; Werner, Seymour S.
    The period of the first World War marks a new epoch in literature. A set of powerful, nationalistic forces had been suddenly unleashed to upset the mundane themes of western culture still seemingly secure in the warm afterglow of the late nineteenth century. Shortly after the war had begun, the truth of the horrors of combat as related by the aoldiers appeared in print. The contemporaneous aspect of war's realism was among the reasons that the public aeclaimed the war novel. As one authority declared "Dans toutes les nations belligerantes le livre de guerre a ete le grand succes populaire. Il semble bien avoir realise 1'oeuvre exemplaire de la litterature sociale: En France Le Feu de Barbusse, Lea Croix de bois de Dorgeles, et La Vie des martyrs de Duhamel sont des liens spirituels entre la nation et l'armee, tels que jamais une epoque n'en a etablie."
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    Humor in the works of Marcel Proust
    (1932) Schwam, Etta; Otto Patel
    In a recent novel, "Water-Gypsies" by A. P. Herbert, one ofthe characters says, "She dug out of her trunks the writings ofa man called Proust, who could devote a whole book, it seemed, tothe flicker of an eyelid." This is fundamentally true.But how interesting and meaningful Proust can make that flicker! To begin any study of the works of Marcel Proust, it is ofinterest to delve a little into his manner of writing. He is anartist totally "different" from any other. You must never expectthe usual from Proust. Indeed, while he was writing his big work, "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu", in 1908, he wrote to a friend,Louis de Robert, that he was doing something different. The reading of the first volume only will bear out this statement.
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    The eternal woman and the eternal feminine in the light of Claudel's vision
    (1961) Mandin, Mary Augusta; David, Jean
    The purpose of this essay is to examine some of the feminine portraits in the literary gallery of Paul Claudel, poet-ambassador, to determine the function and position that woman is assigned in his world perspective. Now, since the feminine half of humanity is the main consideration here, man is relegated to the background, but this does not lessen his importance in the poet's estimation or ours; for, the concept of woman's relationship to man and her role in his life constitute a major portion of the present investigation. Furthermore, man shares with woman the same ultimate destiny for they are equal as human beings, although their function differs because their abilities are not the same; hence woman's masculine counterpart will by no means be forgotten in the course of this exposition.
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    Goethe's Werther and the Delphine of Mme. de Staël
    (1948) Batchelor, Marion Page; Simpson, Lurline V.
    Students of French and German literature, and particularly of the origins of French Romanticism, lay much stress on the so-called "Wertherfievre" which raged in France after the first translations of Goethe's Werther appeared; it seems to have made itself felt in every aspect of French leisure society. "Wertherisme" was seen even in the clothing styles; to it were attributed many suicides; and not the least important of the "wertherisme" is to be found in the literary productions considered offspring of Goethe's Storm and Stress novel. Among these works, Delphine, the early novel of Mme. De Stael, is generally cited.