The Artificial and the Natural PDF Download

Author: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262026201
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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These essays - written by specialists of different periods and various disciplines - reveal that the division between nature and art has been continually challenged and reassesed in Western thought. Nature and art, the essays suggest, are mutually constructed, defining and redifining themselves.

Author: Elizabeth Wanning Harries
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691115672
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Harries introduces the stories written by 17th century French women, or conteuses, female storytellers. Their stories omitted from the traditional, largely male-authored, fairy tale "canon."

Author: Patricia Hannon
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042005228
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Fabulous Identities revises traditional interpretations of the fairy-tale vogue which was dominated by salon women in the last decade of the French seventeenth century. This study of women's tale narratives is set into an investigation of how aristocratic identity was transformed by political and social realignments forced by royal absolutism or ambitious materialism. Women's distinctive contributions to the genre are defined by drawing upon various texts that articulated the century's moral, cultural, and aesthetic values, as well as upon contemporary critical perspectives including seventeenth-century historical and cultural studies. Caught up in the philosophical, political and social controversy over woman's nature, seventeenth-century women writers benefited from salon culture and their access to writing through the literary genres of fairy tales and novels, to explore new identities and expand representations of subjectivity. Women's tales can be seen as a theater for staging an authorial persona at odds with their portrait as presented in male-authored didactic treatises and in the fairy tales of Charles Perrault. At a time when the pressures of social conformity weighed heavily upon them, the conteuses highlight through metamorphosis the affective dimension together with its impact on evolving notions of personal autonomy.

Author: Voltaire
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 2385089947
Category : Drama
Languages : fr
Pages : 110

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Brutus est une tragédie en cinq actes et en vers de Voltaire, considéré à son époque comme le successeur des grands Corneille et Racine. Elle fut représentée pour la première fois à la Comédie-Française en décembre 1730, mais Voltaire en a composé au moins le premier acte lors de son séjour en Angleterre, marqué par la découverte de Shakespeare. Elle est d'ailleurs précédée d'un discours sur la tragédie dédié à Milord Bolingbrooke, qui compare notamment la langue anglaise et la langue française et l'asservissement auquel la versification soumet la seconde. La pièce met en scène la conspiration de Titus, fils de Junius Brutus, fondateur légendaire de la République romaine et un des deux premiers consuls romains, pour le rétablissement des Tarquin, c'est-à-dire de la royauté. Voltaire goûte la dimension politique de la tragédie mais aussi les déchirements d'un fils qui aime la fille de l'ennemi de son père et de sa patrie, et d'un père qui n'a d'autre choix que de condamner son fils à mort.