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Download or read book Paratexts written by Gerard Genette and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-13 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's private and public history. In this first English translation of Paratexts, Gérard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual declaration requires a carefully calibrated analysis of their illocutionary force. With clarity, precision and an extraordinary range of reference, Paratexts constitutes an encyclopedic survey of the customs and institutions as revealed in the borderlands of the text. Genette presents a global view of these liminal mediations and the logic of their relation to the reading public by studying each element as a literary function. Richard Macksey's foreword describes how the poetics of paratexts interact with more general questions of literature as a cultural institution, and situates Gennet's work in contemporary literary theory.

Download or read book Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture written by Jonathan Dewald and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No other work covers the subject that Dewald presents. . . . A learned tour de force."--Orest Ranum, Johns Hopkins University "No other work covers the subject that Dewald presents. . . . A learned tour de force."--Orest Ranum, Johns Hopkins University

Download or read book La Princesse de Cl ves written by Madame De La Fayette and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Princesse de Clèves racontée par Mme de La Fayette: un grand classique. Texte intégral. Cet ouvrage s’inscrit dans un projet de sauvegarde et de valorisation de bibliothèques et fonds patrimoniaux anciens appartenant à la littérature des 19e et 20e siècles. Une collection de grands classiques, d’écrits pour le théâtre, de poésie, mais aussi des livres d’histoire, de philosophie ou d’économie, des récits de voyage ou des livres pour la jeunesse à retrouver via les librairies en ligne ou à lire sur papier avec une mise en page étudiée pour optimiser le confort de lecture. La Princesse de Clèves est un roman de Madame de La Fayette, publié anonymement en 1678. L'action du roman se situe à la cour des Valois « dans les dernières années du règne de Henri Second », comme l'indique le narrateur dans les premières lignes du récit.

Download or read book The Princess de Montpensier written by Madame de La Fayette and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Princess De Montpensier by Madame de La Fayette is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.

Download or read book The Descartes Dictionary written by Kurt Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Descartes Dictionary is an accessible guide to the world of the seventeenth-century philosopher René Descartes. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all his major works, ideas and influences, and provides a firm grounding in the central themes of Descartes' thought. The introduction provides a biographical sketch, a brief account of Descartes' philosophical works, and a summary of the current state of Cartesian studies, discussing trends in research over the past four decades. The A-Z entries include clear definitions of the key terms used in Descartes' writings and detailed synopses of his works. Also included are entries noting philosophical influences, of both figures that influenced Descartes and those that he in turn influenced. For anyone reading or studying Descartes, rationalism, or modern philosophy more generally, this original resource provides a wealth of useful information, analysis, and criticism. Including clear explanations of often complex terminology, The Descartes Dictionary covers everything that is essential to a sound understanding of Descartes' philosophy.

Download or read book The Princess of Montpensier written by Madame de Lafayette and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Princess of Montpensier is a short story or novella by Madame de La Fayette, published anonymously in 1662. It is the story of adulterous love affairs where the heroine falls in love with someone other than her husband. It is considered a classic work of French literature and was adapted for film in 2010 under the same title.

Download or read book Madame de Lafayette and la Princesse de Cleves written by Janet Raitt and published by . This book was released on 1971-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La princesse de Cl ves Madame de Lafayette written by Madame De Lafayette and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Princesse de Clèves est un roman de Madame de La Fayette, d'abord publié anonymement en 1678.Le roman prend pour cadre la vie à la cour des Valois dans les dernières années du règne de Henri Second, comme l'indique le narrateur dans les premières lignes du récit. Il peut donc être défini comme un roman historique, même s'il inaugure, par bien des aspects (souci de vraisemblance, construction rigoureuse, introspection des personnages) la tradition du roman d'analyse. C'est en effet un des premiers romans dits psychologiques, ce qui contribue à sa modernité.

Download or read book La princesse de Montpensier written by Madame de La Fayette and published by 12-21. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame de La Fayette devance Racine quand elle montre les ravages de la passion aveugle, celle qui entraîne vers la ruine et la mort. Au temps des Valois et des guerres de religion, Madame de Montpensier aime ainsi le jeune duc de Guise, bafouant un mari de circonstance ivre de violence. Elle ignore les sentiments qu'elle inspire au duc d'Anjou, le futur roi de France. Avec une férocité inconsciente, elle torture le pauvre comte de Chabannes chargé de l'éduquer, follement amoureux d'elle lui aussi. Du dépit, de la rage, de la haine, les fureurs sauvages de la jalousie, des assassinats, voilà le portrait de l'amour que Madame de La Fayette peint avec du sang. Préface de Jacques Perrin Le texte de Madame de La Fayette est suivi de la " Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Madame de La Fayette ", écrite par Antoine Jay (1770-1854) en 1832

Download or read book The Princess of Montpensier written by Madame De Lafayette and published by . This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne (Comtesse de Lafayette) (1634-1693) was a French writer. She was born in Paris to a family of minor but rich nobility. In 1655, de La Vergne married François Motier, Comte de Lafayette, a widowed nobleman some eighteen years her senior, with whom she would have two sons. Settling permanently in Paris in 1659, Lafayette published, anonymously, La Princesse de Montpensier in 1662. Her most famous novel was La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel, first published anonymously in 1678. An immense success, the work is often taken to be a prototype of the early psychological novel.

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Download or read book Challenges to Traditional Authority written by Françoise Pascal and published by Renaissance Society of America. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second half of the seventeenth century marked the first major breakthrough for women playwrights in France, as some of them succeeded in getting their works staged, published and taken seriously by critics and authority figures. The four works included here, translated into English for the first time, represent the diversity of genres cultivated by these writers, while reflecting both the cultural milieu of the era and a concern for the status of women. Françoise Pascal's Endymion, a tragicomedy with special effects, daringly reexamines a classical myth. Marie-Catherine Desjardins's Nitetis, a historical tragedy, focuses on the plight of a virtuous and astute queen married to an evil tyrant. Antoinette Deshoulières's Genseric, also a historical tragedy, rejects prevailing models of male heroism and of conventional tragic plots. Catherine Durand's proverb comedies contain a scathing critique of aristocratic mores and give voice to women's desires for emancipation.

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