Corneille and His Times
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Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Dramatists, French |
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Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Dramatists, French |
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Author | : Guizot (M., François) |
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Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : French literature |
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Author | : Guizot |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
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ISBN | : 9781022843738 |
In this classic work, Guizot provides a detailed biography of one of France's greatest playwrights, Pierre Corneille. He also details the political, social, and cultural milieu in which Corneille created his masterpieces. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : M. Guizot |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2018-01-04 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780428343927 |
Excerpt from Corneille and His Times For literature was carefully cultivated and truly loved at that time, which left it so little space for its manifest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : M. Guizot |
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Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2018-01-05 |
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ISBN | : 9781983579134 |
Corneille and his times 418 pages
Author | : Louis Auchincloss |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781570031229 |
In a charming collection of elegant essays, one of the twentieth century's leading men of letters turns his vast knowledge and worldly authority to the texts of two seventeenth-century French dramatists. Louis Auchincloss considers sixteen plays by Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and his younger theatrical rival, Jean Racine (1639-99). Musing on the ideas that informed the court of the Sun King and on what classical allusions meant to them, Auchincloss offers thoughtful readings, new translations, and a wealth of shrewd observations about French classic tragedy, passion, self-sacrifice, self-aggrandizement, and civic and military glory. Auchincloss lets the grand voices of Corneille's and Racine's heroes and heroines speak, while calling attention to details and discoveries that illumine aspects of both seventeenth-century and twentieth-century culture. He specifically considers the theme of gloire - the lofty destiny or mission that the hero (and more rarely the heroine) has set for himself and for which he would willingly sacrifice the most passionate romance, closest friendship, or dearest family ties. While gloire is more commonly associated with Corneille than with Racine, Auchincloss demonstrates that these French masters were capable of swapping predilections when it came to the Roman plays.
Author | : Robert J. Nelson |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1512804754 |
With rare exceptions, English and American views of Corneille derive from that documentary approach that is more interested in a writer's times than in the writer. Perhaps more than any other major French writer, Corneille must be resurrected from the mass of documentation that has accumulated about him in nearly three centuries of criticism. Dr. Nelson's study, in line with much recent French criticism, concentrates primarily on the canon. The first book in English on this major European dramatist in over fifty years, this fresh return to the plays them selves presents a Corneille more varied and more flexible than the sententious figure passed down through decades of inordinate critical emphasis on the famed tetralogy (Le Cid, Horace, Cinna, Polyeucte). Thus, there is not only the familiar genereux of these plays, but also the damoiseau of the early comedies, the ambitieux of the middle plays, and the amoureux of the last plays. Through rigorous attention to the values of both the hero and the world Corneille creates about him in each of the thirty-two plays, Robert J. Nelson demonstrates in detail what some perceptive critics have hinted at in recent Corneille criticism: that Corneille's vision is not tragic. The drama of "The Father of French Tragedy" is, to be sure, "tragic" in the externals of composition (five acts, alexandrines, the fate of noble figures, etc.), but its essence is something else. What this something else is, and that even in our age of extreme deference to the "tragic vision" it in no way diminishes Corneille's stature, are the final arguments of this original study. Corneille: His Heroes and Their Worlds will appeal to all those with an interest in French Drama, as well as those studying the application of modern critical techniques to classical authors. Students of theory of tragedy will also find this new look at Corneillian "tragedy" stimulating.
Author | : Alfred Bates |
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Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : American drama |
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Author | : Providence Public Library (R.I.) |
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Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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Author | : François Guizot |
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Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : France |
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