{"product_id":"style-theory-and-history-paperback","title":"Style: Theory and History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErnest Hello\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRichard Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStyle (Theory and History)\u003c\/em\u003e, written by Ernest Hello, and published in 1861, is a collection of essays on the subject of... style; it is page after page of keen psychological insight into men, minds, God, art, life, and other things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelloʼs style itself, - contrary to what one might think from the rather boring title - runs the gamut from trenchant, mocking, playful, masterly, to brilliant. He takes a particular pleasure in laying into not a few of Franceʼs eighteenth century great luminaries - such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - like a man with a pitchfork rushing at a pig. No one escapes the pen unscathed. They all scamper away bruised, bloodied, with their tails between their legs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis critical assessments of Greek poetry, prose, and drama are brilliant, invigorating, novel and worth the charge of admission on their own: \"...in order to penetrate Greek tragedy, one must seize it at its source, in Homer. Greek tragedy is a comment on the \u003cem\u003eIliad...\" \u003c\/em\u003eFrom the Greeks he proceeds to Rome eventually: \"Virgil was actually incapable of imitating Homer; he wrote a parody...\" and \"Tacitus is not only the greatest writer of the Latin language, he is the greatest writer of classical antiquity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBloyians will see in Ernest Hello a germ that sprouted in his brain; he had a huge influence on L?on Bloyʼs style and thought, particularly as a critic, but also as an artist and as a Catholic writer. Take this for instance: \"What does not kneel before God kneels before the devil.\" Sound like anyone we know? After you read \u003cem\u003eStyle (Theory and History)\u003c\/em\u003e by Hello, go back and re-read Bloyʼs \u003cem\u003eJe MʼAccuse\u003c\/em\u003e and see if you canʼt hear the echoes from this book bouncing off its pages, as from a source.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 228\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45837631684805,"sku":"9781955392624","price":25.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/sgVuvM7GYa9781955392624.webp?v=1771282020","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/style-theory-and-history-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}