Reforming French Culture

Author : George Hoffmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192536259

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Reforming French Culture is a ground-breaking work on the literary genre of Reformation satire—colloquial, obscene, scatological—designed to mock the excesses as well as the essence of the Roman Catholic rite and hierarchy. Enticingly, Hoffmann proposes that while romance, with its episodic, heroic narrative, is the literary genre of Counter-Reformation, satire is the genre of Reformation. This minor category of Renaissance French literature is an unstudied continent that plays a key role, not only in French literature, but also in French history, and in the evolution of French culture more generally. From this deceptively small focus, the volume opens up huge vistas: on the Reformation, on French history, and on the symbiosis of spirituality and estrangement to which it views modern French culture as heir. Rather than using literature to illustrate history, or contextualizing literature through historical background, this book brings literary understanding (what satire is and what it does) to bear on historical understanding. Situated at the crossroads of religion, literature, and cultural history, it explores how France, in this period, became a culturally Protestant country while remaining confessionally Catholic.

Author : W. R. Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351005081

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Reforms and Restraints in Modern French Education by W. R. Fraser Pdf

Originally published in 1971. This book looks at the French educational services. which had been being reformed over the 1960s. The dynamic for change stemmed from population pressures, higher aspirations and students’ dissatisfaction. The author shows how attempts to reform have been limited by administrative, political and cultural restraints. He also explores the whole complex of inter-related professional problems which face the reformers, including the need to revise and modernize the syllabus of work in many subjects, relationships between students and their teachers, and changes in the professional education of teachers. The book will interest all those interested in the working of an educational system and its relationship to the society around it.

Author : Henry Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521570239

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Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France by Henry Phillips Pdf

This original and far-reaching study looks afresh at the involvement of the Catholic Church in the cultural life of France in the seventeenth century. Professor Phillips provides a comprehensive overview of art and literature, education, ideas and censorship, and he focuses on the Church as a reforming and reformed institution in the context of the Counter-Reformation. The strength of his synthesis, the first of its kind in English, lies in the breadth of its concerns and in its combination of social, religious and intellectual history.

Author : Glenn S. Sunshine
Publisher : Truman State Univ Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1931112282

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Reforming French Protestantism by Glenn S. Sunshine Pdf

Theology encounters history and culture in sixteenth-century France in this examination of French Protestantism. The analysis reveals how Calvinism's growing influence led to the unification of French Protestant churches despite the opposition of the royalty. The interaction between newly adopted Calvinist theology and French society led to the development of the Presbyterian polity of the church government, a concept that quickly spread through western Europe.

Author : Rhoda Métraux,Margaret Mead
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1571818138

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Themes in French Culture by Rhoda Métraux,Margaret Mead Pdf

Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda Métraux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew out of the Columbia University project on Research of Contemporary Cultures in 1954. It is one of the few works by American social scientists dealing with broad themes of French life. Mead and Métraux present a vivid picture of the French starting with the organization of the house and its architecture, and drawing original conclusions for the structure of French families and overall cultural values. This work, long out of print, is a fascinating and penetrating portrait of a contemporary European society.

Author : Peter Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521459427

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Reform and Revolution in France by Peter Jones Pdf

This textbook has been written to help teachers and students to pilot their way through the enormous and ever expanding literature on the French Revolution. The author makes a conscious effort to combine social and political interpretations of the origins of the Revolution and offers a synthesis which takes full account of current debates. He also seeks to restore the Revolution to its domestic environment. Notwithstanding the powerful contemporary myth of rupture, the author argues that the dramatic events of 1789 need to be considered alongside the reform achievements of Bourbon absolute monarchy. The result is a new account of the gestation of the Revolution which is both up-to-date and satisfying in its range of vision.

Author : Andrew Sobanet
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789624366

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Revisioning French Culture by Andrew Sobanet Pdf

Revisioning French Culture brings together a striking group of leading intellectuals and scholars to explore new avenues of research in French and Francophone Studies. Covering the medieval period through the twenty-first century, this volume presents investigations into a vast array of subjects, with global Francophonie as its primary focal point.

Author : Roger Chartier
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822373841

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The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution by Roger Chartier Pdf

Reknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers and scholars now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French revolution not simply by investigating its “cultural origins” but by pinpointing the conditions that “made is possible because conceivable.” Chartier has set himself two important tasks. First, while acknowledging the seminal contribution of Daniel Mornet’s Les origens intellectuelles de la Révolution française (1935), he synthesizes the half-century of scholarship that has created a sociology of culture for Revolutionary France, from education reform through widely circulated printed literature to popular expectations of government and society. Chartier goes beyond Mornet’s work, not be revising that classic text but by raising questions that would not have occurred to its author. Chartier’s second contribution is to reexamine the conventional wisdom that there is a necessary link between the profound cultural transformation of the eighteenth century (generally characterized as the Enlightenment) and the abrupt Revolutionary rupture of 1789. The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution is a major work by one of the leading scholars in the field and is likely to set the intellectual agenda for future work on the subject.

Author : Alexandra Hughes,Alex Hughes,Keith A Reader,Keith Reader
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134788651

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Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture by Alexandra Hughes,Alex Hughes,Keith A Reader,Keith Reader Pdf

More than 700 alphabetically organized entries by an international team of contributors provide a fascinating survey of French culture post 1945. Entries include: * advertising * Beur cinema * Coco Chanel * decolonization * écriture feminine * football * francophone press * gay activism * Seuil * youth culture Entries range from short factual/biographical pieces to longer overview articles. All are extensively cross-referenced and longer entries are 'facts-fronted' so important information is clear at a glance. It includes a thematic contents list, extensive index and suggestions for further reading. The Encyclopedia will provide hours of enjoyable browsing for all francophiles, and essential cultural context for students of French, Modern History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies.

Author : French Workshop, The,Kelley Wingate Levy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : France
ISBN : 1931463174

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Discovering French Culture by French Workshop, The,Kelley Wingate Levy Pdf

Author : Timothy Tackett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400854370

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Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France by Timothy Tackett Pdf

The imposition of a loyalty oath on French clergymen in the winter of 1790 was a turning point in the Revolutionary decade after 1789. What is more, there is a remarkable similarity between the geography of this oath--the regional percentages of those who accepted or rejected it--and the geographic patterns of religious practice and political behavior persisting into the twentieth century. Timothy Tackett investigates the origins and nature of this fascinating phenomenon. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : AndrewJ. Counter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351562812

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Inheritance in Nineteenth-century French Culture by AndrewJ. Counter Pdf

The transmission of wealth between generations was not only a narrative commonplace in nineteenth-century France, but also a topic of considerable cultural anxiety and intense political debate. In this study, Andrew J. Counter draws on a wealth of previously unexplored material to show how the theme of inheritance in literature and beyond acquired ethical, historical and ideological connotations, and was vital to nineteenth-century French conceptions of the family and of the legacy of the Revolution. Weaving together fiction, drama, legal texts, historiographical thought and political writing, Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century French Culture teases out a complex leitmotiv that gives us a new understanding of nineteenth- century Frances sense of its own place in history. It also proposes innovative readings of writers as familiar as Honore de Balzac, George Sand, Guy de Maupassant and Emile Zola, while drawing attention to a range of neglected authors and works.

Author : Christopher J. Lane
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780228009757

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Callings and Consequences by Christopher J. Lane Pdf

The concept of vocation in an early modern setting calls to mind the priesthood or religious life in a monastery or cloister; to be “called” by God meant to leave the concerns of the world behind. Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, French Catholic clergy began to promote the innovative idea that everyone, even an ordinary layperson, was called to a vocation or “state of life” and that discerning this call correctly had implications for one’s happiness and salvation, and for the social good. In Callings and Consequences Christopher Lane analyzes the origins, growth, and influence of a culture of vocation that became a central component of the Catholic Reformation and its legacy in France. The reformers’ new vision of the choice of a state of life was marked by four characteristics: urgency (the realization that one’s soul was at stake), inclusiveness (the belief that everyone, including lay people, was called by God), method (the use of proven discernment practices), and liberty (the belief that this choice must be free from coercion, especially by parents). No mere passing phenomena, these vocational reforms engendered enduring beliefs and practices within the repertoire of global Catholic modernity, even to the present day. An illuminating and sometimes surprising history of pastoral reform, Callings and Consequences helps us to understand the history of Catholic vocational culture and its role in the modernizing process, within Christianity and beyond.

Author : Donald Morrison,Antoine Compagnon
Publisher : Polity
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745649948

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The Death of French Culture by Donald Morrison,Antoine Compagnon Pdf

For a long time, France and its culture have been one and the same. However, of this past glory, all that is left today is navel-gazing, nostalgia and timidity. Covering art, fashion, philosophy, literature and cinema, Donald Morrison argues that French culture no longer has the kind of international standing it once did.

Author : Sheila Perry
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : France
ISBN : 0415131790

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Aspects of Contemporary France by Sheila Perry Pdf

This book highlights aspects distinctive to France in economic, social, political and cultural spheres.