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The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe

Richard Scholar

Author : Richard Scholar
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199274406

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What is the je-ne-sais-quoi? How - if at all - can it be put into words? In addressing these questions, Richard Scholar offers the first full-length study of the je-ne-sais-quoi and its fortunes in early modern Europe. He describes the rise and fall of the expression as a noun and as a topic of debate, examines its cluster of meanings, and uncovers the scattered traces of its 'pre-history'. The je-ne-sais-quoi is often assumed to belong purely to the realmof the literary, but in the early modern period it serves to articulate problems of knowledge in natural philosophy, the passions, and culture, and for that reason it is approached here from an interdisciplinary perspective. Placing major figures of the period such as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Descartes, Corneille, and Pascalalongside some of their lesser-known contemporaries, Scholar argues that the je-ne-sais-quoi serves above all to capture first-person encounters with a 'certain something' that is as difficult to explain as its effects are intense. When early modern writers use the expression in this way, he suggests, they give literary form to an experience that twenty-first-century readers may recognize as something like their own.

The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe

Richard Scholar

Author : Richard Scholar
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191515262

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What is the je-ne-sais-quoi? How-if at all-can it be put into words? In addressing these questions, Richard Scholar offers the first full-length study of the je-ne-sais-quoi and its fortunes in early modern Europe. He describes the rise and fall of the expression as a noun and as a topic of debate, examines its cluster of meanings, and uncovers the scattered traces of its 'pre-history'. The je-ne-sais-quoi is often assumed to belong purely to the realm of the literary, but in the early modern period it serves to articulate problems of knowledge in natural philosophy, the passions, and culture, and for that reason it is approached here from an interdisciplinary perspective. Placing major figures of the period such as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Descartes, Corneille, and Pascal alongside some of their lesser-known contemporaries, Scholar argues that the je-ne-sais-quoi serves above all to capture first-person encounters with a 'certain something' that is as difficult to explain as its effects are intense. When early modern writers use the expression in this way, he suggests, they give literary form to an experience that twenty-first-century readers may recognize as something like their own.

Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France

Nora Martin Peterson

Author : Nora Martin Peterson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644530351

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Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France was inspired by the observation that small slips of the flesh (involuntary confessions of the flesh) are omnipresent in early modern texts of many kinds. These slips (which bear similarities to what we would today call the Freudian slip) disrupt and destabilize readings of body, self, and text—three categories whose mutual boundaries this book seeks to soften—but also, in their very messiness, participate in defining them. Involuntary Confessions capitalizes on the uncertainty of such volatile moments, arguing that it is instability itself that provides the tools to navigate and understand the complexity of the early modern world. Rather than locate the body within any one discourse (Foucauldian, psychoanalytic), this book argues that slips of the flesh create a liminal space not exactly outside of discourse, but not necessarily subject to it, either. Involuntary confessions of the flesh reveal the perpetual and urgent challenge of early modern thinkers to textually confront and define the often tenuous relationship between the body and the self. By eluding and frustrating attempts to contain it, the early modern body reveals that truth is as much about surfaces as it is about interior depth, and that the self is fruitfully perpetuated by the conflict that proceeds from seemingly irreconcilable narratives. Interdisciplinary in its scope, Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France pairs major French literary works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (by Marguerite de Navarre, Montaigne, Madame de Lafayette) with cultural documents (confession manuals, legal documents about the application of torture, and courtly handbooks). It is the first study of its kind to bring these discourses into thematic (rather than linear or chronological) dialog. In so doing, it emphasizes the shared struggle of many different early modern conversations to come to terms with the body’s volatility. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

Andrea Brady,Emily Butterworth

Author : Andrea Brady,Emily Butterworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135191955

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Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the past? This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions. They explore elite and popular culture, women and men’s experiences, and the encounter between East and West, providing a comparative view on the range of personal, political and social practices with which early modern people planned for, imagined, manipulated or even rejected the future. Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. With a foreword by Peter Burke.

Sublime Worlds

Emma Gilby

Author : Emma Gilby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351547482

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Some of the language we come across, in reading other peoples' works or listening to others speak, moves us profoundly. It requires a response from us; it occupies and involves us. Writers, always readers and listeners as well, are fascinated by this phenomenon, which became the subject of the classical treatise On the Sublime , traditionally attributed to Longinus. Emma Gilby looks at this compelling and complex text in relation to the work of three major seventeenth-century authors: Pierre Corneille, Blaise Pascal and Nicolas Boileau. She offers, in each case, intimate critical readings which spin out into broad interrogations about knowledge and experience in early modern French literature.

Early Modern Constructions of Europe

Florian Kläger,Gerd Bayer

Author : Florian Kläger,Gerd Bayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317394921

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Early Modern Constructions of Europe by Florian Kläger,Gerd Bayer Pdf

Between the medieval conception of Christendom and the political visions of modernity, ideas of Europe underwent a transformative and catalytic period that saw a cultural process of renewed self-definition or self-Europeanization. The contributors to this volume address this process, analyzing how Europe was imagined between 1450 and 1750. By whom, in which contexts, and for what purposes was Europe made into a subject of discourse? Which forms did early modern ‘Europes’ take, and what functions did they serve? Essays examine the role of factors such as religion, history, space and geography, ethnicity and alterity, patronage and dynasty, migration and education, language, translation, and narration for the ways in which Europe turned into an ‘imagined community.’ The thematic range of the volume comprises early modern texts in Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, including plays, poems, and narrative fiction, as well as cartography, historiography, iconography, travelogues, periodicals, and political polemics. Literary negotiations in particular foreground the creative potential, versatility, and agency that inhere in the process of Europeanization, as well as a specifically early modern attitude towards the past and tradition emblematized in the poetics of the period. There is a clear continuity between the collection’s approach to European identities and the focus of cultural and postcolonial studies on the constructed nature of collective identities at large: the chapters build on the insights produced by these fields over the past decades and apply them, from various angles, to a subject that has so far largely eluded critical attention. This volume examines what existing and well-established work on identity and alterity, hybridity and margins has to contribute to an understanding of the largely un-examined and under-theorized ‘pre-formative’ period of European identity.

Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France

Ann T. Delehanty

Author : Ann T. Delehanty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611484892

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Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France analyzes the work of several literary critics in France and England, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, who were inspired by the idea that literature - especially the literary sublime - might offer us the deepest kind of knowledge. Dominique Bouhours, Nicolas Boileau, Ren Rapin, John Dennis, and the abb Dubos believed that literature could deliver truths that transcend our world and were analogous or even equal to the truths of divine revelation. Ann Delehanty argues that this shift towards the transcendental realm pushed the definition of the literary work away from describing its objective properties and towards its effects on the mind of the reader. After placing these ideas about literature in the context of the religious and philosophical thinking of Blaise Pascal, Delehanty traces the evolution of a debate about literature in the writings of the critics in question. They embraced theories of sentiment and the passions as the epistemological means of identifying and knowing the transcendental aspects of a literary work that eventually came to be known as aesthetics. By tracing the historical evolution of the relationship between transcendentalism and aesthetics in French and English neoclassical thought, Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France provides new and engaging insights into an important moment in our literary history.

Political Aesthetics

Karl Axelsson

Author : Karl Axelsson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350077768

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Providing a gateway to a new history of modern aesthetics, this book challenges conventional views of how art's significance developed in society. The 18th century is often said to have involved a radical transformation in the concept of art: from the understanding that it has a practical purpose to the modern belief that it is intrinsically valuable. By exploring the ground between these notions of art's function, Karl Axelsson reveals how scholars of culture made taste, morals and a politically stable society integral to their claims about the experience of nature and art. Focusing on writings by two of the most prolific men of letters in the 18th century, Joseph Addison (1672–1719) and the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), Axelsson contests the conviction that modern aesthetic autonomy reoriented the criticism and philosophy originally prompted by these two key figures in the history of aesthetics. By re-examining the political relevance of Addison and Shaftesbury's theories of taste, Axelsson shows that first and foremost they sought to fortify a natural link between aesthetic experience and modern political society.

Tension / Spannung

Christoph F. E. Holzhey

Author : Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Publisher : Series Cultural Inquiry
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783851326161

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Tension appears in many contexts and carries diverse meanings. It tends to be viewed as something to be avoided and reduced in politics; to be explained, worked through, and resolved in therapy or science; to be endured and sustained in modern art; or to be sought after and enjoyed in popular culture. This volume brings together contributions from several academic and artistic fields in order to question the self-evidence of the deceptively simple term ‘tension’ and explore the possibility of productive transfers among different forms und understandings of tension. Refusing the temptation of a stabilizing synthesis, it establishes a dense web of approaches, providing a new critical paradigm for further inquiry.

Representing Avarice in Late Renaissance France

Jonathan Patterson

Author : Jonathan Patterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198716518

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Jonathan Patterson outlines the moral vocabulary and concepts used to describe avaricious behaviour in late Renaissance France and innovatively shows how the works of well-known authors engaged in productive dialogue with many of their lesser-known contemporaries on problems of avarice.

The Sublime

Timothy M. Costelloe

Author : Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521143677

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This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of different theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on 'the sublime'.

Monsters and their Meanings in Early Modern Culture

Wes Williams

Author : Wes Williams
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191617898

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Monsters and their Meanings in Early Modern Culture by Wes Williams Pdf

To call something 'monstrueux' in the mid-sixteenth century is, more often than not, to wonder at its enormous size: it is to call to mind something like a whale. By the late seventeenth 'monstrueux' is more likely to denote hidden intentions, unspoken desires. Several shifts are at work in this word history, and in what Othello calls the 'mighty magic' of monsters; these shifts can be described in a number of ways. The clearest, and most compelling, is the translation or migration of the monstrous from natural history to moral philosophy, from descriptions of creatures found in the external world to the drama of human motivation, of sexual and political identity. This interdisciplinary study of monsters and their meanings advances by way of a series of close readings supported by the exploration of a wide range of texts and images, from many diverse fields, which all concern themselves with illicit coupling, unarranged marriages, generic hybridity, and the politics of monstrosity. Engaging with recent, influential accounts of monstrosity - from literary critical work (Huet, Greenblatt, Thomson Burnett, Hampton), to histories of science and 'bio-politics' (Wilson, Céard, Foucault, Daston and Park, Agamben) - it focusses on the ways in which monsters give particular force, colour, and shape to the imagination; the image at its centre is the triangulated picture of Andromeda, Perseus and the monster, approaching. The centre of the book's gravity is French culture, but it also explores Shakespeare, and Italian, German, and Latin culture, as well as the ways in which the monstrous tales and images of Antiquity were revived across the period, and survive into our own times.

Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe

Jon R. Snyder

Author : Jon R. Snyder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015084095515

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"A major scholarly achievement, which speaks to multiple disciplines and national traditions...Snyder offers an elegant introduction to the discourse of dissimulation in the courtly world of sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe, then moves beyond to make an important, original intervention on a topic that stands at the center of current debates about modernity."--Albert Ascoli, author of Dante and the Making of a Modern Author "The Baroque is the time of 'Machiavellianism' in politics, ethics, and religion. It is the time of esthetics of ostentation, chiaroscuros, and monumental theatricality. Paradoxically, it is also the time when freedom of thought, the value of dissidence, questions of authenticity, debates about virtues, and practices of confessions come to the fore. Snyder brings all these issues to new life in this deft and powerful book."--Giuseppe Mazzotta, author of The New Map of the World: the Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico

Cahiers Élisabéthains

Anonim

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English literature
ISBN : IND:30000107487682

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Études sur la pré-renaissance et la renaissance anglaises.

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Stephen Cushman,Clare Cavanagh,Jahan Ramazani,Paul Rouzer

Author : Stephen Cushman,Clare Cavanagh,Jahan Ramazani,Paul Rouzer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1678 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400841424

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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by Stephen Cushman,Clare Cavanagh,Jahan Ramazani,Paul Rouzer Pdf

The most important poetry reference for more than four decades—now fully updated for the twenty-first century Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first century. Compiled by an entirely new team of editors, the fourth edition—the first new edition in almost twenty years—reflects recent changes in literary and cultural studies, providing up-to-date coverage and giving greater attention to the international aspects of poetry, all while preserving the best of the previous volumes. At well over a million words and more than 1,000 entries, the Encyclopedia has unparalleled breadth and depth. Entries range in length from brief paragraphs to major essays of 15,000 words, offering a more thorough treatment—including expert synthesis and indispensable bibliographies—than conventional handbooks or dictionaries. This is a book that no reader or writer of poetry will want to be without. Thoroughly revised and updated by a new editorial team for twenty-first-century students, scholars, and poets More than 250 new entries cover recent terms, movements, and related topics Broader international coverage includes articles on the poetries of more than 110 nations, regions, and languages Expanded coverage of poetries of the non-Western and developing worlds Updated bibliographies and cross-references New, easier-to-use page design Fully indexed for the first time

The Je Ne Sais Quoi In Early Modern Europe

The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe by Richard Scholar Pdf

The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe by Richard Scholar Pdf

Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France by Nora Martin Peterson Pdf

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe by Andrea Brady,Emily Butterworth Pdf

Sublime Worlds by Emma Gilby Pdf

Early Modern Constructions of Europe by Florian Kläger,Gerd Bayer Pdf

Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France by Ann T. Delehanty Pdf

Political Aesthetics by Karl Axelsson Pdf

Tension / Spannung by Christoph F. E. Holzhey Pdf

Representing Avarice in Late Renaissance France by Jonathan Patterson Pdf

The Sublime by Timothy M. Costelloe Pdf

Monsters and their Meanings in Early Modern Culture by Wes Williams Pdf

Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe by Jon R. Snyder Pdf

Cahiers Élisabéthains by Anonim Pdf

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by Stephen Cushman,Clare Cavanagh,Jahan Ramazani,Paul Rouzer Pdf

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