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Author : Suellen Diaconoff
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2600035702
Author : Antoinette Marie Sol
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838755003
"Drawing on correspondence, novels, literary criticism, and other documents by Riccoboni, Laclos, and Burney, Antoinette Sol demonstrates how these novelists, traditionally separated by nationality, gender, and genre, are in fact concerned with similar issues of individual authority and social criticism. She shows how arbitrary literary categorization of these writers as sentimental or libertine has kept their work from a reading which reveals their commonalities."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547388616
Dangerous Liaisons is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two narcissistic rivals (and ex-lovers) who use seduction as a weapon to socially control and exploit others, all the while enjoying their cruel games and boasting about their manipulative talents. It has been seen as depicting the decadence of the French aristocracy shortly before the French Revolution, thereby exposing the perversions of the so-called Ancien Régime.
Author : Karen L. Taylor
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780816074990
French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.
Author : Peter V. Conroy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027217335
Concentrating on the reader places the entire epistolary exchange in a new light and accentuates the use of the word as an instrument of power and the letter as a tool for domination.
Author : Pierre L. Horn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313368820
Throughout the world, there has been much scholarly and general interest in French popular culture, but very little has been written on the subject in English. The authors of this book address that lack in a series of highly readable and well-documented essays describing French life styles, attitudes, and entertainments as well as the writers and performers currently favored by the French public. Several chapters explore French tastes in popular literature and other reading matter, including comics, cartoons, mystery and spy fiction, newspapers and magazines, and science fiction. Film, popular music, radio, and television are also discussed in detail, and influences from other cultures--particularly American imports--are assessed. The remaining essays examine French sports, the use of leisure time, the French style of eating and drinking, and relations between men and women and their attitudes toward romantic love. Each chapter provides up-to-date historical and bibliographic information that will enable the reader to pursue subjects of particular interest. Written by an international group of specialists, this handbook offers the benefits of broad coverage, a variety of viewpoints, and solid scholarship.
Author : Charles R. Embry
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826219152
These essays supply a theoretical grounding for the reading of novels, poems, and plays and reveal how the Voegelinian perspective exposes the existential and philosophical dimensions of the literary works themselves. As a unit, this collection of essays shows how modern pieces of literature can symbolize their creators' participation in the human search for the truth of existence--just as myths, philosophical works, and religious texts always have. Voegelin's primary concern as a philosopher was to expose the roots of the disturbances of the modern era--religious conflict, imperialism, war--so that the sources of order leading to meaning are revealed. The openness of Voegelinian thought and the many ways he considered the levels of reality generate intriguing themes for literary criticism.
Author : James Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351542951
What is the role of the prude in the roman libertin? James Fowler argues that in the most famous novels of the genre (by Richardson, Crebillon fils, Laclos and Sade) the prude is not the libertine's victim but an equal and opposite force working against him, and that ultimately she brings retribution for his social, erotic and philosophical presumption. In a word, she is his Nemesis. He is vulnerable to her power because of the ambivalence he feels towards her; she is his ideological enemy, but also his ideal object. Moreover, the libertine succumbs to an involuntary nostalgia for the values of the Seventeenth Century, which the prude continues to embody through the age of Enlightenment. In Crebillon fils and Richardson, the encounter between libertine and prude is played out as a skirmish or duel between two individuals. In Laclos and Sade, the presence of female libertines (the Marquise de Merteuil and Juliette) allows that encounter to be reenacted within a murderous triangle.
Author : Tonglin Lu
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791404641
Compares the narrative expression of sexual sublimation and perversion in two 18th-century French novels with that in two classical Chinese novels. The works, Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise and Les Liaisons dangereuses, and The Golden lotus and Dream of the red chamber, were chosen to illustrate a period before significant culture intercourse between the two countries, and because their status as major literary works has raised them above the particular context of their origin. Also available in paper (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : John C. O'Neal
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271027791
Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as &"the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France.&" The first major general study in English of eighteenth-century French sensationism, The Authority of Experience presents the history of a complex set of ideas and explores their important ramifications for literature, education, and moral theory. The study begins by presenting the main ideas of sensationist philosophers Condillac, Bonnet, and Helv&étius, who held that all of our ideas come to us through the senses. The experience of the body in seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching enabled individuals, as John C. O'Neal points out, to challenge the sometimes arbitrary authority of institutions and people in positions of power. After a general introduction to sensationism, the author develops a theory of sensationist aesthetics that not only reveals the interconnections of the period's philosophy and literature but also enhances our awareness of the forces at work in the French novel. He goes on to examine the relations between sensationism and eighteenth-century French educational theory, materialism, and id&éologie. Ultimately, O'Neal opens a discussion of the implications of sensationist thought for issues of particular concern to society today.
Author : Benjamin Rountree
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : 2600035788
Author : Ann Thomson
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Atheism
ISBN : 2600035850
Author : Mary McAlpin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317135913
In her study of eighteenth-century literature and medical treatises, Mary McAlpin takes up the widespread belief among cultural philosophers of the French Enlightenment that society was gravely endangered by the effects of hyper-civilization. McAlpin's study explores a strong thread in this rhetoric of decline: the belief that premature puberty in young urban girls, supposedly brought on by their exposure to lascivious images, titillating novels, and lewd conversations, was the source of an increasing moral and physical degeneration. In how-to hygiene books intended for parents, the medical community declared that the only cure for this obviously involuntary departure from the "natural" path of sexual development was the increased surveillance of young girls. As these treatises by vitalist and vitalist-inspired physiologists became increasingly common in the 1760s, McAlpin shows, so, too, did the presence of young, vulnerable, and virginal heroines in the era's novels. Analyzing novels by, among others, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, and Choderlos de Laclos, she offers physiologically based readings of many of the period's most famous heroines within the context of an eighteenth-century discourse on women and heterosexual desire that broke with earlier periods in recasting female and male desire as qualitatively distinct. Her study persuasively argues that the Western view of women's sexuality as a mysterious, nebulous force-Freud's "dark continent"-has its secular origins in the mid-eighteenth century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004459038
This book is an intercultural exploration of the full scope of evil. The problems of evil have beset humanity throughout the ages and continue to trouble us. The studies here examine evil in Asian thought, in Western theory, in the cosmic order, in human psychology, and in social practice. Insights are added to the philosophical discussions from religion, culture, history, law, technology, and literature.
Author : Suellen Diaconoff
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791464229
Argues that women's relationship to books and their promotion of reading contributed greatly to the cultural and intellectual vitality of the Enlightenment.