Author: Alison Saunders
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600004527
Category : Emblem books, French
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1044

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Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: Pierre Zoberman
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144388300X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : fr
Pages : 450

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Interpretation in/of the Seventeenth Century explores interpretation according to, and by, the seventeenth century, namely how intellectuals and officials conceived of interpretation, and how they read their world and its relationship to the past, and of the seventeenth century. As such, the volume examines both temporal relationships, such as current interpretations of the seventeenth century or interpretation of itself and the past by the seventeenth century, and transversal relations, including practices of reading, crossings from one genre to another, and translation. The comparative conception underlying the collection’s three main sections (“Culture and Interpretation”, “Interpretation and Literature”, and “Shifts and Perspectives”) allows for an in-depth examination of what could be meant in seventeenth-century France by interpretation—between exegesis and translation—and what interpretive practices characterized the culture of the period. What may the ceremonies organized on a more or less grandiose scale and with more or less clearly visible programmes by the Crown or various institutions have meant for the organizers and their audiences, given the material and perspectival limitations faced by most of the viewers and participants and the difficulty to read the allegorical-symbolic representations? Science and belief play an important role in deciphering representation: discourses on optics and ghosts stories alike help shed light on the evolution of interpretation, as concept and practice, throughout this period. Literature, in the modern sense of the word, is given particular attention in the volume. Several chapters examine the connection of literary forms to conceptions of interpretation: how did topical plays, staging contemporary events, help shape the interpretation of current affairs and further political agendas? More generally, how do dramaturgy, theatrical production and acting contribute to an understanding of the ways in which the participants in early modern European culture viewed their own time, and of the ways in which the period can be interpreted today? And can early-modern accounts of literature and society be read as signposts for a modern understanding of the period? To these and other, related, questions, the study of translation and translators in the seventeenth century and of modern translations for audiences outside of France (in particular for Molière), as well as an examination of adaptations of seventeenth-century works for other media today, bring novel perspectives.

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Category : Architecture
Languages : fr
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Pages : 86

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Author: Bruno Cortequisse
Publisher: Librairie Académique Perrin
ISBN: 9782262018566
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Languages : fr
Pages : 193

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Plus de trois cents ans après sa disparition, cette biographie de " Madame Louis XIV" est la première qui ait été consacrée à la reine du Grand Siècle. Il était temps que l'on raconte enfin l'épouse légitime après avoir tant écrit sur les maîtresses. Infante d'Espagne, offerte en mariage à Louis XIV lors de la conclusion de la paix des Pyrénées, Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche, " la meilleure femme du monde ", selon la princesse Palatine, partagera durant un peu plus de vingt ans l'existence du Roi-Soleil. Union pleine de contrastes : lui le premier roi de la terre, elle créature effacée, humble, uniquement occupée du souci d'être agréable à son époux auquel elle donnera six enfants, dont un seul parviendra à l'âge adulte. Constamment trompée, vite résignée à son sort, elle s'accommodera avec une philosophie non dénuée d'humour de la présence de Mlle de La Vallière, de Mme de Montespan, puis de Mme de Maintenon, de combien d'autres encore... Incapable de rancœur ou d'une mauvaise action, glacée de terreur respectueuse devant Louis XIV, elle s'attirera la bienveillance de toute la Cour, gagnant la sympathie et les cœurs en se montrant attentive et complaisante à chacun. Entourée de quelques rares intimes, elle vivra isolée au milieu de la pompe versaillaise, plainte généralement, ne gagnant de Louis XIV qu'une tendresse reconnaissante. Lorsqu'elle mourut, le Roi eut ce mot qui résume tout : " C'est le seul chagrin qu'elle m'aura donné... "

Author: Andrea Alciati
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786418079
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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Andrea Alciati's Emblematum Liber was an essential work for every writer, artist and scholar in post-medieval Europe. First published in 1531, this illustrated book was a collection of emblems, each consisting of a motto or proverb, a typically enigmatic illustration, and a short explanation. Most of the emblems had symbolic and moral applications. Scholars depended on Alciati's book to interpret contemporary art and literature, while writers and artists turned to it to invest their work with an understood didactic sense. This new edition of the Emblematum Liber includes the original Latin texts, highly readable English translations, and the illustrations belonging to each of the 212 emblems. The editor's introduction explains both the importance and the cultural contexts of Alciati's book, as well as its innumerable artistic applications. For instance, close study of the emblems reveals--to cite only two examples--why statues of lions are traditionally placed before government buildings, and what underlying political message was conveyed by innumerable equestrian portraits during the Baroque era. The collection includes as an appendix the formerly suppressed emblem, "Adversus Naturam Peccantes," accompanied by a translation of the learned commentary applied to it by Johann Thuilius in 1612. An extensive bibliography points the student to scholarly research specifically dealing with artistic applications of Alciati's emblems. Altogether, this new edition of Alciati's seminal work is an essential tool for modern students of the liberal arts.