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Book The Princess of Cleves

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  • Author : Madame de La Fayette (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book The Princess of Cleves written by Madame de La Fayette (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La Princesse de Cl  ves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Madame de La Fayette
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book La Princesse de Cl ves written by Madame de La Fayette and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature

Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature written by Brian Nelson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging, highly accessible and informative introduction to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present.

Book Po  mes  Pi  ces  Prose

Download or read book Po mes Pi ces Prose written by Peter Schofer and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 1973-03-01 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to teach introductory students of French literature how to read literary works.

Book Narrative as Theme

Download or read book Narrative as Theme written by Gerald Prince and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In literature the very act of narration often constitutes a theme: everyone is familiar with narration that interrupts the story, that provides an ironic gloss on the action, that exposes the narrator, that serves to deceive. In Narrative as Theme Gerald Prince offers the first book-length study of the theme of narrative and of the relationshipøbetween narrative and truth in fiction. In the first part, theoretical in nature, Prince considers the notion of theme as well as the theme of narrative itself, surveys the research that has come out of that notion, and isolates starting points for the investigation of narrative as theme. Of particular interest to narratologists will be his discussion of the "disnarrated," all those passages of a text that consider what did not or does not happen but oculd have. He shows how the disnarrated is an important guide to reading the theme of narrative. The second part focuses on seven French novels: Mme de Lafayette's La Princesse de Cl_ves, Voltaire's Candide, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Sartre's La Nausäe, Maupassant's Bel-Ami, Claude Simon's La Route des Flandres, and Patrick Modiano's Rue des Boutiques Obscures. Written in first and third person, absorbed or not in the act of narration, variously concerned with history, ethics, and psychology, these classical, modern, and postmodern works exemplify basic positions with regard to the truth or value of narrative. His Dictionary of Narratology, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1987, confirmed Gerald Prince as one of the world's leading narratologists.

Book Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV

Download or read book Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV written by Roland Racevskis and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the measurement and understanding of time in seventeenth-century Europe, particularly in France. Close readings of literary representations of time in Moliere, Mme de Sevigne, and Mmd de Lafayette are contextualized with historical studies of court life under Louis XIV, the restructuring of the early modern French postal system, and the emergencce of new practices of periodical publication, respectively. An epistemological backdrop for these historical and literary studies is provided by an introductory analysis of developments in the science of time measurement under Louis XIV. A concluding section places questions of human temporality in the contemporary context of global environmental concerns.

Book The Cambridge History of the Novel in French

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Novel in French written by Adam Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This History is the first in a century to trace the development and impact of the novel in French from its beginnings to the present. Leading specialists explore how novelists writing in French have responded to the diverse personal, economic, socio-political, cultural-artistic and environmental factors that shaped their worlds. From the novel's medieval precursors to the impact of the internet, the History provides fresh accounts of canonical and lesser-known authors, offering a global perspective beyond the national borders of 'the Hexagon' to explore France's colonial past and its legacies. Accessible chapters range widely, including the French novel in Sub-Saharan Africa, data analysis of the novel system in the seventeenth century, social critique in women's writing, Sade's banned works and more. Highlighting continuities and divergence between and within different periods, this lively volume offers routes through a diverse literary landscape while encouraging comparison and connection-making between writers, works and historical periods.

Book Madame de Lafayette and  La Princesse de Cl  ves

Download or read book Madame de Lafayette and La Princesse de Cl ves written by Janet Raitt and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Bildungsroman

Download or read book A History of the Bildungsroman written by Sarah Graham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed analysis of the evolution of the Bildungsroman genre is unprecedented in its historical and geographical range.

Book Monstrous Society

Download or read book Monstrous Society written by David Collings and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Monstrous Society problematizes competing representations of reciprocity in England in the decades around 1800. It argues that in the eighteenth-century moral economy, power is divided between official authority and the counter-power of plebeians. This tacit, mutual understanding comes under attack when influential political thinkers, such as Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and T.R. Malthus, attempt to discipline the social body, to make state power immune from popular response. But once negated, counter-power persists, even if in the demands of a debased, inhuman body. Such a response is writ large in Gothic tales, especially Matthew Lewis's The Monk and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and in the innovative, embodied political practices of the mass movements for Reform and the Charter. By interpreting the formation of modern English culture through the early modern practice of reciprocity, David Collings constructs a "nonmodern" mode of analysis, one that sees modernity not as a break from the past but as the result of attempts to transform traditions that, however distorted, nevertheless remain broadly in force."--Jacket.

Book The Life of La Fayette

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  • Author : Lydia Hoyt Farmer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1888
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 614 pages

Download or read book The Life of La Fayette written by Lydia Hoyt Farmer and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Monstrous Regiment of Women

Download or read book The Monstrous Regiment of Women written by S. Jansen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Monstrous Regiment of Women , Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The 'story' of early modern European political history looks very different if, instead of focusing on kings and their sons, we see successive generations of powerful women and the shifting political alliances of the period from a very different, and revealing, perspective.

Book Le Grand Meaulnes

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  • Author : Alain-Fournier
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1990-03
  • ISBN : 9780140182828
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Le Grand Meaulnes written by Alain-Fournier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic French novel written by a soldier, who would later die during World War I, tells the story of Auguste Meaulnes and the "domain mysterieux."

Book Count D Orgel s Ball

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raymond Radiguet
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2005-03-31
  • ISBN : 9781590171387
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Count D Orgel s Ball written by Raymond Radiguet and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count d'Orgel is handsome, charming, and carefree, a model of cool aristocratic aplomb. His wife, the Countess, is beautiful and pure and loves her husband more than anything in the world. But from the moment the d'Orgels meet and befriend the clever young François de Séryeuse backstage at the circus, all three of these supremely civilized and witty people are caught up in an ever more intricate and seductive dance of deception and self-deception. At Count d'Orgel's masquerade ball, the real disguises are those of the human heart. Completed just before Raymond Radiguet's death at the age of twenty, Count d'Orgel's Ball is a love story that is as disturbing as it is delicious.

Book Letters of a Peruvian Woman

Download or read book Letters of a Peruvian Woman written by Françoise de Graffigny and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It has taken me a long time, my dearest Aza, to fathom the cause of that contempt in which women are held in this country ...' Zilia, an Inca Virgin of the Sun, is captured by the Spanish conquistadores and brutally separated from her lover, Aza. She is rescued and taken to France by Déterville, a nobleman, who is soon captivated by her. One of the most popular novels of the eighteenth century, the Letters of a Peruvian Woman recounts Zilia's feelings on her separation from both her lover and her culture, and her experience of a new and alien society. Françoise de Graffigny's bold and innovative novel clearly appealed to the contemporary taste for the exotic and the timeless appetite for love stories. But by fusing sentimental fiction and social commentary, she also created a new kind of heroine, defined by her intellect as much as her feelings. The novel's controversial ending calls into question traditional assumptions about the role of women both in fiction and society, and about what constitutes 'civilization'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book Treason

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2019-05-06
  • ISBN : 9004400699
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Treason written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime.

Book Madame de Lafayette and  la Princesse de Cleves

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: