{"id":21880,"date":"2011-03-23T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T04:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=21880"},"modified":"2011-03-23T00:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T04:00:31","slug":"stendhal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/03\/23\/stendhal\/","title":{"rendered":"Stendhal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/stendhal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21886\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/stendhal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/stendhal.jpg 463w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/stendhal-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stendhal\" target=\"_blank\">Stendhal<\/a>&#8216;s birthday (1783-1842).<\/p>\n<p>From &#8220;Towards a Theory of Cultural History&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The chief difference between the comedy of the Renaissance and the realistic period is that the resolution of the latter more frequently involves a social promotion, and, like pathos, tends to be an individual achievement. \u00a0More sophisticated writers of low mimetic comedy often present the same success story with the moral ambiguities that we have found in Aristophanes. \u00a0In Balzac or Stendhal a clever and ruthless scoundrel may achieve the same kind of success as the virtuous heroes of Samuel Smiles and Horatio Alger. \u00a0Thus the comic counterpart of the <em>alazon<\/em> seems to be the clever, likable, unprincipled <em>picaro<\/em> of the picaresque novel. \u00a0(CW 21, 161)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier posts on Frye and Alger <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2011\/01\/13\/horatio-alger\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2011\/01\/13\/more-frye-on-alger\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Stendhal&#8216;s birthday (1783-1842). 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