{"product_id":"style-ernest-hello-9781955392624","title":"Style: Theory and History","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ernest Hello\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1955392625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781955392624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sunny Lou Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Ernest Hello","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46838541287679,"sku":"9781955392624","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e360f16a-d341-46e8-9d9d-cafc28cffa4d.jpg?v=1746590151","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/style-ernest-hello-9781955392624","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}