Clifton Cherpack (essay date fall 1975)
SOURCE: Cherpack, Clifton. “Le Petit Jehan de Saintré: The Archetypal Background.” The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 5, no. 2 (fall 1975): 243-52.
[In the following essay, Cherpack evaluates the problem of unity in Little John of Saintré, averring that the archetypal stories at the core of the myths of Pygmalion and Prometheus inform the characterization and development of the work.]
The reasons why Le Petit Jehan de Saintré is the most studied French work of its...
Source: Literary Criticism (1400-1800), ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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