Author: George Harris BallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
A Study of the Syntax of Le Moyen de Parvenir
Author: George Harris BallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The World View of Béroalde de Verville
Author: Janis L. PallisterPublisher: Vrin
ISBN: 9782711641154
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A General Catalogue of Books Offered to the Public at the Affixed Prices by Bernard Quaritch ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Born to Write
Author: Neil KennyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192593560
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
It is easy to forget how deeply embedded in social hierarchy was the literature and learning that has come down to us from the early modern European world. From fiction to philosophy, from poetry to history, works of all kinds emerged from and through the social hierarchy that was a fundamental fact of everyday life. Paying attention to it changes how we might understand and interpret the works themselves, whether canonical and familiar or largely forgotten. But a second, related fact is much overlooked too: works also often emanated from families, not just from individuals. Families were driving forces in the production—that is, in the composing, editing, translating, or publishing—of countless works. Relatives collaborated with each other, edited each other, or continued the unfinished works of deceased family members; some imitated or were inspired by the works of long-dead relatives. The reason why this second fact (about families) is connected to the first (about social hierarchy) is that families were in the period a basic social medium through which social status was claimed, maintained, threatened, or lost. So producing literary works was one of the many ways in which families claimed their place in the social world. The process was however often fraught, difficult, or disappointing. If families created works as a form of socio-cultural legacy that might continue to benefit their future members, not all members benefited equally; women sometimes produced or claimed the legacy for themselves, but they were often sidelined from it. Relatives sometimes disagreed bitterly about family history, identity (not least religious), and so about the picture of themselves and their family that they wished to project more widely in society through their written works, whether printed or manuscript. So although family was a fundamental social medium out of which so many works emerged, that process could be conflictual as well as harmonious. The intertwined role of family and social hierarchy within literary production is explored in this book through the case of France, from the late fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. Some families are studied here in detail, such as that of the most widely read French poet of the age, Clément Marot. But the extent of this phenomenon is quantified too: some two hundred families are identified as each containing more than one literary producer, and in the case of one family an extraordinary twenty-seven.
Fantastic Tales; Or, The Way to Attain--a Book Full of Pantagruelism Now for the First Time Done Into English
Author: Béroalde de VervillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy fiction, French
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A Crtitical Bibliography of French Literature V2 16th C
Author: Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 896
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Bulletin
Author: Institut national genevoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
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Bernard Quaritch
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
Bibliotheca Heberiana
Author: Richard HeberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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