Author: François GuizotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Corneille Et Son Temps
Author: François GuizotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Comedies of Corneille
Author: G. J. MallinsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719009921
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Style of the State in French Theater, 1630–1660
Author: Katherine IbbettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351881418
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Engaging with recent thinking about performance, political theory and canon formation, this study addresses the significance of the formal changes in seventeenth-century French theater. Each chapter takes up a particularity of seventeenth-century theatrical style and staging”for example, the clearing of violence from the stage”and shows how the conceptualization of these French stylistic shifts appropriates a rich body of Italian political writing on questions of action, temporality, and law. The theater's appropriation of political concerns and vocabularies, the author argues, proffers an astute reflection on the practices of government that draws attention to questions obscured in reason of state, such as the instrumentalization of women's bodies. In a new reading of tragedies about government, the author shows how the canonical figure of Pierre Corneille is formally engaged with the political strategizing he often appears to repudiate, and in so doing challenges a literary history that has read neoclassicism largely as a display of pure French style.
Love in the Theatre of Marivaux
Author: Valentini Papadopoulou BradyPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600035057
Category : Love in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
An Outline History of French Literature
Author: Henry Stanley SchwarzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H.M. Signet in Scotland
Author: A Second Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Signet Library. 1882-1887
Author: Signet Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The Literary Market
Author: Geoffrey TurnovskyPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203577
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A central theme in the history of Old Regime authorship highlights the opportunities offered by a growing book trade to writers seeking to free themselves from patrons and live "by the pen." Accounts of this passage from patronage to market have explored in far greater detail the opportunities themselves—the rising sums paid by publishers and the progression of laws protecting literary property—than how and why writers would have seized on them, no doubt because the choice to do so has seemed an obvious or natural one for writers assumed to prefer economic self-sufficiency over elite protection. In The Literary Market, Geoffrey Turnovsky claims that there was nothing obvious or natural about the choice. Writers had been involved in commercial book publication since the earliest days of the printing press, yet had not necessarily linked these activities with their freedom to think and write. The association of autonomy and professionalism was forged, not given. Analyzing the literary market as a key articulation of the association, Turnovsky explores how in eighteenth-century polemics a rhetoric of commercial authorship came to signify independence for intellectuals. He finds the roots of the connection not in the claims of entrepreneurial writers to rights and income but in a world to which that of the modern author has been contrasted: the aristocratic culture of the seventeenth century. Aristocratic culture, he argues, generated a disparaging view of the professional author as one defined by activities tainting him or her as greedy and arrogant and therefore unworthy of protection and socially isolated. The Literary Market examines the story of the "birth of the author" in terms of the revalorization of this negative trope in Enlightenment-era debates about the radically changing role of writers in society.
Cultural Transfer Through Translation
Author: Stefanie StockhorstPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042029501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Studies, at least as much as to historical translation studies. --Book Jacket.
Author: Pierre Corneille