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Author | : Ellen McClure |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843845504 |
Download The Logic of Idolatry in Seventeenth-century French Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Idolatry was one of the dominant and most contentious themes of early modern religious polemics. This book argues that many of the best-known literary and philosophical works of the French seventeenth century were deeply engaged and concerned with the theme. In a series of case studies and close readings, it shows that authors used the logic of idolatry to interrogate the fractured and fragile relationship between the divine and the human, with particular attention to the increasingly fraught question of the legitimacy of human agency. Reading d'Urf , Descartes, La Fontaine, S vign , Molire, and Racine through the lens of idolatry reveals heretofore hidden aspects of their work, all while demonstrating the link between the emergent autonomy of literature and philosophy and the confessional conflicts that dominated the period. In so doing, Professor McClure illustrates how religion can become a source of interpretive complexity, and how this dynamism can and should be taken into account in early modern French studies and beyond. ELLEN MCCLURE is Associate Professor of History and French, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Author | : Dr Marianne Legault |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2012-12-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1409471039 |
Download Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examining literary discourses on female friendship and intimacy in seventeenth-century France, this study takes as its premise the view that, unlike men, women have been denied for centuries the possibility of same sex friendship. The author explores the effect of this homosocial and homopriviledged heritage on the deployment and constructions of female friendship and homoerotic relationships as thematic narratives in works by male and female writers in seventeenth-century France. The book consists of three parts: the first surveys the history of male thinkers' denial of female friendship, concluding with a synopsis of the cultural representations of female same-sex practices. The second analyzes female intimacy and homoerotism as imagined, appropriated and finally repudiated by Honoré d'Urfé's pastoral novel, L'Astrée, and Isaac de Benserade's seemingly lesbian-friendly comedy, Iphis et Iante. The third turns to unprecedented depictions of female intimate and homoerotic bonds in Madeleine de Scudéry's novel Mathilde and Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force's fairy tale Plus Belle que Fée. This study reveals a female literary genealogy of intimacies between women in seventeenth-century France, and adds to the research in lesbian and queer studies, fields in which pre-eighteenth-century French literary texts are rare.
Author | : Bronwyn Reddan |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2020-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1496223934 |
Download Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses' scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the "right" way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.
Author | : Faith E. Beasley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2017-09-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351902202 |
Download Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole. In the second half of the book Beasley examines how historians and literary critics subsequently portrayed the seventeenth century literary realm, which became identified with the great reign of Louis XIV and designated the official canon of French literature. Beasley argues that in a rewriting of this past, the salons were reconfigured in order to advance an alternative view of this premier moment of French culture and of the literary masterpieces that developed out of it. Through her analysis of how the seventeenth century salon has been defined and transmitted to posterity, Beasley illuminates facets of France's collective memory, and the powers that constituted it in the past and that are still working to define it today.
Author | : Susanna Phillippo |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : French drama |
ISBN | : 9783034308519 |
Download Hellenic Whispers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book builds a picture of how Greek literature was reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century French tragedy. The text explores the complex interactions surrounding these adaptations, involving the input of scribes, editors, translators and earlier authors, and asks the important question of what these dramatists conceived of themselves as doing.
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Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : French literature |
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Download Papers on French seventeenth century literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sharon Kettering |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Decentralization in government |
ISBN | : 0195036735 |
Download Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-century France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown extended its control over the provinces and laid the foundations for a centralized state by removing patronage power from the provincial governors and putting it instead in the hands of newly-created provincial power brokers--regional notables who cooperated with the Paris ministers in exchange for their patronage.
Author | : Jennifer Robin Perlmutter |
Publisher | : Gunter Narr Verlag |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Families in literature |
ISBN | : 9783823362210 |
Download Relations & Relationships in Seventeenth-century French Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume is devoted to the variety of relationships that defined France and ist citizens. Man's connection with God is explored, the travel raelation and the particular hierarchy that exists between a director and a dramatist, respectively. These themes are further addressed in the articles that follow on relationships of authority, Catholics and Protestants, books and Illustrations, literary genres, travel relations, aesthetics and ethics and family relationships.
Author | : John Cruickshank |
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Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : French literature |
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Download French Literature and Its Background: The seventeenth century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 1996 |
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Download Papers on French seventeenth-century literature no. 44 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle