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Book Synopsis The Theatre and Its Critics in Seventeenth-century France by : Henry Phillips
Download or read book The Theatre and Its Critics in Seventeenth-century France written by Henry Phillips and published by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Style of the State in French Theater, 1630–1660 by : Katherine Ibbett
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 289 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.
Book Synopsis Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France by : Henry Phillips
Download or read book Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France written by Henry Phillips and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the involvement of the Catholic Church in the cultural life of France in the seventeenth century.
Book Synopsis Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy by : Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde
Download or read book Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy written by Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study devoted to this topic, Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy offers an important contribution to scholarship on the theatre as well as on early modern attitudes in France, specifically on the subject of lying and deception. Unusually for a scholarly work on seventeenth-century theatre, it is particularly alert to plays as performed pieces and not simply printed texts. The study also distinguishes itself by offering original readings of Molière alongside innovative analyses of other playwrights. The chapters offer fresh insights on well-known plays by Molière and Pierre Corneille but also invite readers to discover lesser-known works of the time (by writers such as Benserade, Thomas Corneille, Dufresny and Rotrou). Through comparative and sustained close readings, including a linguistic and speech act approach, a historical survey of texts with an analysis of different versions and a study of irony, the reader is shown the manifest ways in which different playwrights incorporate the comedic tropes of lying and scheming, confusion and unmasking. Drawing particular attention to the levels of communicative or mis-communicative exchanges on the character-to-character axis and the character-to-audience axis, this work examines the process whereby characters in the comedies construct narratives designed to trick, misdirect, dazzle, confuse or exploit their interlocutors. In the different incarnations of seducer, parasite, cross-dresser, duplicitous narrator/messenger and deluded mythomaniac, the author underscores the way in which the figure of the liar both entertains and troubles, making it a fascinating subject worthy of detailed investigation.
Author :Susanna Phillippo Publisher :Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN 13 :9783034308519 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (85 download)
Book Synopsis Hellenic Whispers by : Susanna Phillippo
Download or read book Hellenic Whispers written by Susanna Phillippo and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds a picture of how Greek literature was reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century French tragedy. The text explores the complex interactions surrounding these adaptations, involving the input of scribes, editors, translators and earlier authors, and asks the important question of what these dramatists conceived of themselves as doing.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of French Theater by : Edward Forman
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of French Theater written by Edward Forman and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "French theater" evokes most immediately the glories of the classical period and the peculiarities of the Theater of the Absurd. It has given us the works of Corneille, Racine, and Moliere. In the Romantic era there was Alexander Dumas and surrealist works of Alfred Jarry, and then the Theater of the Absurd erupted in rationalistic France with Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The Historical Dictionary of French Theater relates the history of the French theater through a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, trends, genres, concepts, and literary and historical developments that played a central role in the evolution of French theater.
Book Synopsis French Theatre in the Neo-classical Era, 1550-1789 by : William Driver Howarth
Download or read book French Theatre in the Neo-classical Era, 1550-1789 written by William Driver Howarth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-05 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1997 book covers the period which saw the establishment in France of a centralized official theatre - not only the Comédie-Française (the first 'national' theatre), but an Italian theatre and a state opera; the often subversive independent theatres are also discussed. Nearly 1,000 documents deal with censorship and other aspects of external control, company management, the acting profession, dramatic theory and criticism, theatre architecture, settings and costumes, audience composition and behaviour. Over 120 pictorial documents - architectural drawings, technical engravings, frontispieces, portraits, etc. - provide a visual dimension where relevant. A full linking narrative and a copious bibliography help to make this an important reference work and a valuable research tool.
Book Synopsis Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing by : Richard Parish
Download or read book Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing written by Richard Parish and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of the belief system of early-modern France as expressed in different writing genres from sermons to martyr tragedies, lyric poetry to spiritual autobiography. Parish considers the distinctive doctrines that the heritage of the Catholic Reformation brought to light.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Pascal by : Nicholas Hammond
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Pascal written by Nicholas Hammond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Blaise Pascal (1623–62) occupies a position of pivotal importance in many domains: philosophy, mathematics, physics, religious polemics and apologetics. In this volume a team of leading scholars presents the full range of Pascal's achievement and surveys the intellectual background of his thought and the reception of his work. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Pascal currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Pascal.
Book Synopsis Recreation in the Renaissance by : A. Arcangeli
Download or read book Recreation in the Renaissance written by A. Arcangeli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Renaissance Europe, when 'leisure classes' used social gathering to define civility and the commercialization of leisure was beginning, the human need for recreation became a cultural topos. The book explores the vocabulary of play and games; the spectrum of leisure activities, often gender-specific or appropriate to particular social groups; the medical discourse on the preservation of health, where amusements were assessed as physical exercise; the moral approach to play; legal treatises on gambling; and the visual representation of leisure.
Book Synopsis Hollywood's Film Wars with France by : Jens Ulff-Møller
Download or read book Hollywood's Film Wars with France written by Jens Ulff-Møller and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is based on hitherto unstudied documents from these institutions. While European film production was at a standstill after World War I, Hollywood companies flooded the European market with hundreds of films at very low prices."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Theatre Under Louis XIV by : J. Prest
Download or read book Theatre Under Louis XIV written by J. Prest and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the fascinating phenomenon of cross-casting and related gender issues in different theatrical genres and different performance contexts during the heyday of French theatre. Although professional acting troupes under Louis XIV were mixed, cross-casting remained an important feature of French court ballet (in which the King himself performed a number of women's roles) and an occasional feature of spoken comedy and tragic opera. Cross-casting also persisted out of necessity in the school drama of the period. This book fills an important gap in the history of French theatre and provides new insight into wider theoretical questions of gender and theatricality. The inclusion of chapters on ballet and opera (as well as spoken drama) opens up the richness of French theatre under Louis XIV in a way that has not been achieved before.
Book Synopsis Inventing the Spectator by : Joseph Harris
Download or read book Inventing the Spectator written by Joseph Harris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing the Spectator reconstructs the theatre spectator's experience as it was understood in France between the Renaissance and the Revolution, raising numerous questions that strike at the very heart of human psychology, cognition, and experience.
Book Synopsis Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Politics, art, and autobiography by : John T. Scott
Download or read book Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Politics, art, and autobiography written by John T. Scott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together critical assessments of the broad range of Rousseau's thought, with a particular emphasis on his political theory, this systematic collection is an essential resource for both student and scholar.
Download or read book Censorship written by Derek Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 6858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis The Plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón by : Jules Whicker
Download or read book The Plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón written by Jules Whicker and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arising from neo-stoic interpretations of prudence, Alarcon's identification of the successful manipulation of illusion as a moral art serves as a defence of the comedia and offers an alternative to the supposed moral irresponsibility of Lope de Vega."--Jacket.
Download or read book Sublime Worlds written by Emma Gilby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the language we come across, in reading other peoples' works or listening to others speak, moves us profoundly. It requires a response from us; it occupies and involves us. Writers, always readers and listeners as well, are fascinated by this phenomenon, which became the subject of the classical treatise On the Sublime , traditionally attributed to Longinus. Emma Gilby looks at this compelling and complex text in relation to the work of three major seventeenth-century authors: Pierre Corneille, Blaise Pascal and Nicolas Boileau. She offers, in each case, intimate critical readings which spin out into broad interrogations about knowledge and experience in early modern French literature.
