Joseph Acquisto

List of John Benjamins publications for which Joseph Acquisto plays a role.

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Acquisto, Joseph 2010 Épistémologie et esthétique de la déception chez Proust et Cioran Revue Romane 45:1, pp. 117–130 | Article
E.M. Cioran’s ideas about disappointment illuminate the role of deception in the aesthetics of Marcel Proust. With reference to the narrator’s experience watching the actress la Berma, I show that the desire to know is at the heart of deception in both writers, and that disappointment is not a… read more