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Author : Robert McBride
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349036005
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Aspects of Seventeenth-Century French Drama and Thought written by Robert McBride and published by Springer. This book was released on 1979-06-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lough
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198157571
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Seventeenth-century French Drama written by John Lough and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313013608
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720 written by Christopher Baker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Robert Lowenstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Voltaire as an Historian of Seventeenth-century French Drama written by Robert Lowenstein and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Ibbett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351881418
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Style of the State in French Theater, 1630–1660 written by Katherine Ibbett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Seventeenth century French drama written by and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1967 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham Gargett
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042016927
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Heroism and Passion in Literature written by Graham Gargett and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, prompted by the publication in 1999 of Moya Longstaffe's remarkable study, Metamorphoses of Passion and the Heroic in French Literature: Corneille, Stendhal, Claudel, further investigates and analyses the multiple appearances of Passion and Heroism in literature. It pursues the exploration of these themes in a variety of cultures (English, French, German, Spanish), genres, and critical approaches. In addition, the chronological span represented is extremely wide. Contributions range from La Fontaine, Molière and Voltaire to Rimbaud and Camus; from Baudelaire to Beckett; from Wagner to Goytisolo. This very diversity gives necessary context, providing scope for reflection and analysis. Although passion seems timeless, can heroism have any real meaning - apart from an individual and existential one - in our postmodern age? Has a notion at the centre of European culture for so many centuries really disappeared from our intellectual and cultural universe? This volume will be of interest to all students of literature, whatever their critical or linguistic allegiance, since it focuses on the varying manifestations of two vital ingredients of all societies and cultures.
Author : Jean-Baptiste Moliere
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014191338X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Miser and Other Plays written by Jean-Baptiste Moliere and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molière combined all the traditional elements of comedy - wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire - to create richly sophisticated and enduringly popular dramas. The Miser is the story of Harpagon, a mean-spirited old man who becomes obsessed with making money out of the marriage of his children, while The Hypochondriac, another study in obsession, is a brilliant satire on the medical profession. The School for Wives, in which an ageing domestic tyrant is foiled in his plans to marry his young ward, provoked such an outcry that Molière followed it with The School for Wives Criticized - a witty retort to those who disapproved of the play's supposed immorality. And while Don Juan is the darkest and most tragic of all the plays in this collection, it still mocks the soullessness of the skinflint with scathing irony.
Author : Graham Tomlin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597527386
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book The Power of the Cross written by Graham Tomlin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a postmodern world the church cannot escape the question of power. The contemporary critique of the church suggests that it reigned for so long in Western society not because it was more true than its rivals, but because it was more powerful. Is the Christian claim to truth merely a veiled bid for power? Has not the church regularly abused its power during the years of Christendom? Does Christian theology have the resources to answer these charges? This book argues that it does, in the quiet but recurrent theme of the theology of the cross. It explores the origins and contours of this kind of theology in three of its major exponents -- St. Paul, Martin Luther, and Blaise Pascal -- showing how each of them turned to a theology of the cross to combat the abuse of power within the church. It concludes by considering how such theology might do the same in the postmodern context. Of interest to anyone concerned with the role of the church in a postmodern world, or in the theology of the cross itself, this book explores vital themes for the church's life and thought both today and in the future.
Author : Jean-Baptiste Moliere
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141913231
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Misanthrope and Other Plays written by Jean-Baptiste Moliere and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-03-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century, Molière raised comedy to the pitch of great art and, three centuries later, his plays are still a source of delight. He created a new synthesis from the major comic traditions at his disposal. This collection demonstrates the range of Molière's comic vision, his ability to move between the broad and basic ploys of farce to the more subtle and sophisticated level of high comedy. The Misanthrope appears along with Such Preposterously Precious Ladies, Tartuffe, A Doctor Despite Himself, The Would-Be Gentleman, and Those Learned Ladies.
Author : Derval Conroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781137568472
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-century French Drama written by Derval Conroy and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard G. Hodgson
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532183
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Falsehood Disguised written by Richard G. Hodgson and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close textual analysis of La Rochefoucauld's writings, Richard Hodgson studies the moralist's use of metaphors such as the mask as well as his very personal concept of what constitutes an etre vrai, or genuine person. The study then traces the impact of La Rochefoucauld's ideas on thinkers from Vauvenargues and Chamfort to Nietzsche, Lautreamont, and Lacan. It concludes by suggesting reasons why La Rochefoucauld's concept of truth continues to have such enormous appeal to the modern reader.
Author : Robert Lowenstien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Voltaire as an Historian of Seventeenth-century French Drama written by Robert Lowenstien and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Moles
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Seventeenth Century written by Elizabeth Moles and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir George Norman Clark
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book War and Society in the Seventh Century written by Sir George Norman Clark and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1528 pages
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Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Braider
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442696214
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Matter of Mind written by Christopher Braider and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes' groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century French culture. He details the broad opposition to rational self-government among Descartes' contemporaries, and attributes conventional links between Descartes and the myth of the modern subject to post-structuralist assessments. The Matter of Mind presents studies drawn from a range of disciplines and examines the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, the drama of Pierre Corneille, and the theology of Blaise Pascal. Braider argues that if early modern thought converged on a single model, then it was the experimental picture based on everyday experience proposed by Descartes' sceptical adversary, Michel de Montaigne. Forceful and provocative, The Matter of Mind will encourage lively debate on the norms and discourses of seventeenth-century philosophy.
