Ideology And Culture In Seventeenth Century France
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Ideology and Culture in Seventeenth century France
Author | : Erica Harth |
Publsiher | : Ithaca : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015021524809 |
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Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth Century France
Author | : Michael Moriarty |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-06-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521113369 |
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This book analyses the use of the crucial concept of 'taste' in the works of five major seventeenth-century French authors, Méré, Saint Evremond, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère and Boileau. It combines close readings of important texts with a thoroughgoing political analysis of seventeenth-century French society in terms of class and gender. Dr Moriarty shows that far from being timeless and universal, the term 'taste' is culture-specific, shifting according to the needs of a writer and his social group. The notion of 'taste' not only helped to shape a new dominant culture, but also registered the conflicts within that culture between a view of taste that presupposted the values of 'polite society' as an exclusive (though not necessarily aristocratic) group, and a view that stressed the value of the classical-humanist tradition as a source of standards ratified by a broader public. this study sheds light not only on the central concept, but also on the individual authors discussed and on the norms of French classical literature in general.
Salons History and the Creation of Seventeenth Century France
Author | : Faith E. Beasley |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2017-09-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781351902212 |
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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.
Classics Incorporated
Author | : Elise Noël McMahon |
Publsiher | : Summa Publications, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1883479215 |
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In this work Professor McMahon takes a new approach to interpreting the most canonized century in French literature. By viewing literature as essentially a cultural practice, she offers an unconventional reading of canonical masterpieces of the era (Corneille's Medee, Moliere's La Bourgeois gentilhomme, Racine's Phedre, and La Fontaine's Fables) to the extent that these works are compared to "non-literary" texts which focus on the human body. "Classics Incorporated" draws on extensive archival research into such unfamiliar historical sources as cookbooks, shopping guides, treatises on medicine and monstrosity, and dance manuals. Because of this insistence on treating literature as part of a given culture and historicising texts in a novel manner, "Classics Incorporated" stands apart as a critical study that can appeal to a diverse audience: those who are interested in cultural criticism, popular culture, cultural history, and critical theory alike.
Ideology and Culture in Seventeenth century France
Author | : Erica Harth |
Publsiher | : Ithaca : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015008232145 |
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Female Intimacies in Seventeenth Century French Literature
Author | : Marianne Legault |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317136033 |
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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.
Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution 1600 1720
Author | : Christopher Baker |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2002-09-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780313013607 |
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This book—the sixth volume in The Great Cultural Eras of the Western World series—provides information on more than 400 individuals who created and played a role in the era's intellectual and cultural activity. The book's focus is on cultural figures—those whose inventions and discoveries contributed to the scientific revolution, those whose line of reasoning contributed to secularism, groundbreaking artists like Rembrandt, lesser known painters, and contributors to art and music. As the momentum of the Renaissance peaked in 1600, the Western World was poised to move from the Early Modern to the Modern Era. The Thirty Years War ended in 1648 and religion was no longer a cause for military conflict. Europe grew more secularized. Organized scientific research led to groundbreaking discoveries, such as the earth's magnetic field, Kepler's first two laws of motion, and the slide rule. In the arts, Baroque painting, music, and literature evolved. A new Europe was emerging. This book is a useful basic reference for students and laymen, with entries specifically designed for ready reference.
Seventeenth century Art and Architecture
Author | : Ann Sutherland Harris |
Publsiher | : Laurence King Publishing |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1856694151 |
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Encompassing the socio-political, cultural background of the period, this title takes a look at the careers of the Old Masters and many lesser-known artists. The book covers artistic developments across six countries and examines in detail many of the artworks on display.