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22 mai 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulg.936
- isbn: 9782251661919
- eisbn: 9782821828766
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Jeanne Delbaere-Garant, « The Reverberator (1888). Urbanity and Provinciality », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.936
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For, not having the lucidity of a large and centrally placed intelligence, the provincial spirit has not its graciousness; it does not persuade, it makes war; it has not urbanity, the tone of the city, of the centre, the tone which aims at a spiritual and intellectual effect, and not excluding the use of banter, never disjoins banter itself from politeness, from felicity. But the provincial tone is more violent, and seems to aim rather at an effect upon the blood and senses than upon the spir...