Author: Michael CardyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780729402873
Category : Eighteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Literary Doctrines of Jean-François Marmontel
Author: Michael CardyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780729402873
Category : Eighteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Literary Doctrines of Jean-François Marmontel
Author: Michael CardyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.
The Literary Doctrines of Jean-Franà§ois Marmontel
Author: The Contested Parterre
Author: Jeffrey S. RavelPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501724622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In the playhouses of eighteenth-century France, clerks and students, soldiers and merchants, and the occasional aristocrat stood in the pit, while the majority of the elite sat in loges. These denizens of the parterre, who accounted for up to two-thirds of the audience, were given to disruptive behavior that culminated in full-scale riots in the last years before the Revolution. Offering a commoner's eye view of the drama offstage, this fascinating history of French theater audiences clearly demonstrates how problems in the parterre reflected tensions at the heart of the Old Regime.Jeffrey S. Ravel vividly depicts the scene in the parterre where the male spectators occupied themselves shoving one another, drinking, urinating, and confronting the actors with critiques of the performance. He traces the futile efforts of the Bourbon Court—and later its Enlightened opponents—to control parterre behavior by both persuasion and force. Ravel describes how the parterre came to represent a larger, more politicized notion of the public, one that exposed the inability of the government to accommodate the demands of French citizens. An important contribution to debates on the public sphere, Ravel's book is the first to explore the role of the parterre in the political culture of eighteenth-century France.
The Literary Career of Jean-François Marmontel
Author: Michael J. CardyReappearing Characters in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Author: Sotirios ParaschasPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319692909
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This book examines the phenomenon of the reappearance of characters in nineteenth-century French fiction. It approaches this from a hitherto unexplored perspective: that of the twin history of the aesthetic notion of originality and the legal notion of literary property. While the reappearance of characters in the works of canonical authors such as Honoré de Balzac and Émile Zola is usually seen as a device which transforms the individual works of an author into a coherent whole, this book argues that the unprecedented systematisation of the reappearance of characters in the nineteenth century has to be seen within a wider cultural, economic, and legal context. While fictional characters are seen as original creations by their authors, from a legal point of view they are considered to be ‘ideas’ which are not protected and can be appropriated by anyone. By co-examining the reappearance of characters in the work of canonical authors and their reappearances in unauthorised appropriations, such as stage adaptations and sequels, this book discusses a series of issues that have shaped our understanding of authorship, originality, and property.
Jean-François Marmontel as a literary and music theorist and critic
Author: Sunny Margit FinsethPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Culture of Diagram
Author: John BenderPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804745056
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
This book defines diagrams as tools manipulated by users to produce new kinds of understanding and demonstrates that a modern diagrammatic knowledge emerged in eighteenth-century visual culture to become the foundation of later nineteenth-century science.
The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution
Author: Cecilia FeillaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317016297
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Smoothly blending performance theory, literary analysis, and historical insights, Cecilia Feilla explores the mutually dependent discourses of feeling and politics and their impact on the theatre and theatre audiences during the French Revolution. Remarkably, the most frequently performed and popular plays from 1789 to 1799 were not the political action pieces that have been the subject of much literary and historical criticism, but rather sentimental dramas and comedies, many of which originated on the stages of the Old Regime. Feilla suggests that theatre provided an important bridge from affective communities of sentimentality to active political communities of the nation, arguing that the performance of virtue on stage served to foster the passage from private emotion to public virtue and allowed groups such as women, children, and the poor who were excluded from direct political participation to imagine a new and inclusive social and political structure. Providing close readings of texts by, among others, Denis Diderot, Collot d'Herbois, and Voltaire, Feilla maps the ways in which continuities and innovations in the theatre from 1760 to 1800 set the stage for the nineteenth century. Her book revitalizes and enriches our understanding of the significance of sentimental drama, showing that it was central to the way that drama both shaped and was shaped by political culture.
Once There Were Two True Friends, Or, Idealized Male Friendship in French Narrative from the Middle Ages Through the Enlightenment
Author: Edward Joe JohnsonPublisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9781883479428
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description