Author: Modern Language Association of America. French Group III.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Bibliography of French Seventeenth Century Studies
Author: Modern Language Association of America. French Group III.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales
Author: Bronwyn Reddan
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496223950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses’ scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the “right” way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496223950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses’ scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the “right” way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.
Hellenic Whispers
Author: Susanna Phillippo
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783034308519
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783034308519
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Emblematics and Seventeenth-century French Literature
Author: Laurence Grove
Publisher: Rookwood Press
ISBN: 9781886365193
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher: Rookwood Press
ISBN: 9781886365193
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France
Author: Faith E. Beasley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351902202
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351902202
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
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.
Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France
Author: William Beik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521367820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This analysis of the provincial reality of absolutism argues that the relationship between the regional aristocracy and the crown was a key factor in influencing the traditional social system of seventeenth century France.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521367820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This analysis of the provincial reality of absolutism argues that the relationship between the regional aristocracy and the crown was a key factor in influencing the traditional social system of seventeenth century France.
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2816
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2816
Book Description
A Critical Bibliography of French Literature
Author: H. Gaston Hall
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815622758
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Richard A. Brooks, general editor, v.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815622758
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Richard A. Brooks, general editor, v.
French Twentieth Bibliography
Author: Douglas W. Alden
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9780945636861
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9780945636861
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.
A Critical Bibliography of French Literature: The seventeenth century
Author: David Clark Cabeen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The numerous selections in this volume give, for the first time, a true idea of the range of Swift's writing over half a century. Besides many familiar works, the editors have included correspondence, political pamphlets, poetry, a sermon, and pieces for the popular press.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The numerous selections in this volume give, for the first time, a true idea of the range of Swift's writing over half a century. Besides many familiar works, the editors have included correspondence, political pamphlets, poetry, a sermon, and pieces for the popular press.