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Author : Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : French literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044072051337
Author : Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : French literature
ISBN : OCLC:12201536
Author : James Bryce,Alexandre Vinet
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020936983
A comprehensive look at French literature during the 18th century, exploring the works of major authors and analyzing their impact on French culture at the time. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1528074254
Excerpt from History of French Literature in the Eighteenth Century As to politics, authority reigns uncontrolled. The parliaments are mute. The Fronde is only a movement without ability. Political questions are generally kept out of view. No man of talent during that time directed his attention to such points, with the exception of Fenelon and Massillon toward the end of the century. Every where else silence is maintained. Perhaps La Bruyere deserves also to be excepted. In regard to literature, in it more than in anything else, if possible, the same need of authority makes itself be felt. At that time conventional forms were established, of which some may be defended and others were adopted without examination. It is a kind of literary religion, mingled no doubt with supersti tion, but not with superstition in itself, because it is founded on true principles. It is connected with the worship of antiquity, imperfectly comprehended indeed, but approved, felt, and honoured. Here and there, however, We perceive some feeble wishes for independence; some men of talent complain, that litera ture is not sufficiently national, and they would go back to the middle ages, our own antiquity: they would free style from cer tain laws and restraints; but these are only powerless desires, the attempts of some men of second-rate ability, and weak aspira tions at what we in the present day term romantisme. No man of eminence adopts the creed of such ordinary persons, who consigned to contempt by the oracles of the classical religion, of which Boileau is high priest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230263748
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... woman governed France. This silence cannot have been involuntary. Still, as to Duclos' book, it is a farther proof that to do well is not all, but that it is especially necessary to come to the point, as Voltaire said. The Reflexions on Morals appeared in 1750, the same year that the ardent genius of J. J. Rousseau produced a strong sensation, and the work of the thinker, who was only intellectual, calm, and delicate, was naturally thrown aside. XXVII. J. J. ROUSSEAU. 1711-1778. FIRST PART. "The eighteenth century had reached its middle, the philosophical school was in all its strength, and the minds of men were in all the fervour of a new protestantism, when a man, forty years of age, unknown till then, the sport of all vicissitudes, a deserter from all employments, after a life inconsistent, disorderly, and sometimes shameful, but whose storms had enlarged his thought and inflamed his genius, darts into this arena, into which combatants crowd, and, by some eloquent passages, announces a rival to the great writers of his age."1 J. J. Rousseau gained such eclat, that Voltaire alone could stand before him: and even he felt himself to be in danger, for Rousseau became the object of his special hatred. Was the irritation which he experienced directed against the pretended faults of Rousseau, against the defects of his system, or against his fame? In all these cases, it must be confessed, nothing so much resembles envy. The universal mind of Voltaire had mastered the most prominent elements of the eighteenth century; but he had left many vast domains uncultivated in dark and deep valleys, which his eye never reached. A man of his age, suited to civilization, and even to corrupt civilization--pathetic only in fiction--he was not the person...
Author : Fayçal Falaky,Reginald McGinnis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781684483426
Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play—from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself—this volume offers new insights into how play was used to represent and reimagine the world in eighteenth-century France. In documenting various modes of play, contributors theorize its relation to law, religion, politics, and economics. Equally important was the role of “play” in plays, and the function of theatrical performance in mirroring, and often contesting, our place in the universe. These essays remind us that the spirit of play was very much alive during the “Age of Reason,” providing ways for its practitioners to consider more “serious” themes such as free will and determinism, illusions and equivocations, or chance and inequality. Standing at the intersection of multiple intellectual avenues, this is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to the different guises of play in Enlightenment France, certain to interest curious readers across disciplinary backgrounds.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This magnificent volume provides a complete history of the literature of France from its origins to the present day, taking us beyond traditional definitions of ‘literature' into the world of the best-seller and, beyond words, to graphic fiction and cinema Presents a definitive history of the literature of France from its origins to the present day. Incorporates coverage of Francophone writing in Europe, Canada, the West Indies and North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Links the development of literature to the mentalities and social conditions which produced it. Takes us beyond “literature” to study graphic fiction, cinema and the bestseller. Maps the rise of the Intellectual, and in so doing charts a progression from literary doctrine to critical theory.
Author : Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632457183
Author : Christiana Bridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : French literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101071980260
Author : Kathleen Theresa Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : French literature
ISBN : UOM:39015008379771
Author : Sarah Kay,Professor of French Literature Terence Cave,Terence Cave,Malcolm Bowie,Master Malcolm Bowie
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198159315
This text traces the history of French literature from its beginnings to the modern day - from the oral works of the Middle Ages via the print culture in the Renaissance, through to the attempted codification of genres and styles in the 19th century and the resourceful experimentation of the 20th.
Author : George Saintsbury
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon P
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : French literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HWAVV1
Author : George Saintsbury
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040583645
Author : George Saintsbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : French literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HWP9UG
Author : Christopher Prendergast
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400885046
An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar. Christopher Prendergast, one of today's most distinguished authorities on French literature, has gathered a transatlantic group of more than thirty leading scholars who provide original essays on carefully selected writers, works, and topics that open a window onto key chapters of French literary history. The book begins in the sixteenth century with the formation of a modern national literary consciousness, and ends in the late twentieth century with the idea of the "national" coming increasingly into question as inherited meanings of "French" and "Frenchness" expand beyond the geographical limits of mainland France. Provides an exciting new account of French literary history from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century Features more than thirty original essays on key writers, works, and topics, written by a distinguished transatlantic group of scholars Includes an introduction and index The contributors include Etienne Beaulieu, Christopher Braider, Peter Brooks, Mary Ann Caws, David Coward, Nicholas Cronk, Edwin M. Duval, Mary Gallagher, Raymond Geuss, Timothy Hampton, Nicholas Harrison, Katherine Ibbett, Michael Lucey, Susan Maslan, Eric Méchoulan, Hassan Melehy, Larry F. Norman, Nicholas Paige, Roger Pearson, Christopher Prendergast, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Timothy J. Reiss, Sarah Rocheville, Pierre Saint-Amand, Clive Scott, Catriona Seth, Judith Sribnai, Joanna Stalnaker, Aleksandar Stević, Kate E. Tunstall, Steven Ungar, and Wes Williams.
