The Libertine S Progress

Author : Pierre Saint-Amand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032301320

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The Libertine's Progress by Pierre Saint-Amand Pdf

The Libertine's Progress is a comprehensive and concise study of the eighteenth-century French novel, providing a fresh look at amorous relations and offering a radical presentation of the dark side of the Enlightenment. In his preface to the new edition, Rene Girard writes of Pierre Saint-Amand's successful rendering of the essai classique, "Not a word in his book is superfluous; not a turn of phrase is selected for rhetorical effect. That is why he writes so elegantly." Maintaining that the eighteenth century was the last period to practice the art of seduction, Saint-Amand examines the complex relationship between desire and the ploys of those who seek to satisfy it. He writes about the magic that permeated the imagination of Enlightenment novelists and about the obscurity of amorous passion, placing modern seduction back in its archaic beginnings. This edition of the 1987 French publication has been substantially revised and extended in an elegant translation by Jennifer Curtiss Gage.

Author : M. R. Wielema
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9065507779

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The March of the Libertines by M. R. Wielema Pdf

Author : James Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351542944

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The Libertine's Nemesis by James Fowler Pdf

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 : Andrew Sobanet,Kylie Sago
Publisher : Studies in Modern and Contempo
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789620207

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Revisioning French Culture by Andrew Sobanet,Kylie Sago 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. Revisioning French Culture grapples with topics vital to the contemporary cultural landscape, including universalism, globalization, the idea of Francophonie, and religious and secular identity. This essay collection furthermore transcends and illuminates the contemporary by delving into matters that have long resonated in the humanities and letters, such as death, war, trauma, power and politics, notions of the truth, conceptions of the self, and modes of reading and writing. With contributions by a number of figures known across the humanities and the social sciences, Revisioning French Culture explores the foundations of the French and Francophone world, providing cultural, political, and historical context for the crisis facing democracy and liberalism around the world today. These essays were assembled in honor of Lawrence D. Kritzman, whose writing and editorial work in French studies inspired the wide-ranging themes examined here.

Author : Aaron Kerner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441108937

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Film and the Holocaust by Aaron Kerner Pdf

When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis. This anxiety is, at least in part, rooted in Theodor Adorno's dictum that "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric." And despite the fact that he later reversed his position, the conservative opposition to all "artistic" representations of the Holocaust remains powerful, leading to the insistent demand that it be represented, as it really was. And yet, whether it's the girl in the red dress or a German soldier belting out Bach on a piano during the purge of the ghetto in Schindler's List, or the use of tracking shots in the documentaries Shoah and Night and Fog, all genres invent or otherwise embellish the narrative to locate meaning in an event that we commonly refer to as "unimaginable." This wide-ranging book surveys and discusses the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in cinema, covering a deep cross-section of both national cinemas and genres.

Author : Matthew Jenkinson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843835905

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Culture and Politics at the Court of Charles II, 1660-1685 by Matthew Jenkinson Pdf

The reconstitution of the royal court in 1660 brought with it the restoration of fears that had been associated with earlier Stuart courts: disorder, sexual liberty, popery and arbitrary government. This volume illustrates the ways in which court culture was informed by the heady politics of Britain between 1660 and 1685.

Author : Paul J. Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351901369

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Seducing the Eighteenth-Century French Reader by Paul J. Young Pdf

As he demonstrates that narratives of seduction function as a master plot for French literature in the eighteenth century, Paul Young argues that the prevalence of this trope was a reaction to a dominant cultural discourse that coded the novel and the new practice of solitary reading as dangerous, seductive practices. Situating his study in the context of paintings, educational manuals, and criticism that caution against the act of reading, Young considers both canonical and lesser-known works by authors that include Rousseau, Sade, Bastide, Laclos, Crébillon fils, and the writers of two widely read libertine novels. How these authors responded to a cultural climate that viewed literature, and especially the novel, as seductive, sheds light on the perils and pleasures of authorship, the ways in which texts interact with the larger cultural discourse, and what eighteenth-century texts tell us about the dangers of reading or writing. Ultimately, Young argues, the seduction not in the text, but by the text raises questions about the nature of pleasure in eighteenth-century French literature and culture.

Author : Natania Meeker
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823226962

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Voluptuous Philosophy by Natania Meeker Pdf

Eighteenth-century France witnessed the rise of matter itself - in forms ranging from atoms to anatomies - as a privileged object of study. Voluptuous Philosophy redefines what is at stake in the emergence of an enlightened secular materialism by showing how questions of figure - how should a body be represented? What should the effects of this representation be on readers? - are tellingly and consistently located at the very heart of 18th-century debates about the nature of material substance. French materialisms of the Enlightenment are crucially invested not only in the development of a sophisticated theoretical apparatus around the notion of matter but in the production of specific relationships between readers and the "matter" of the texts that they consume. How, the book asks, did the period's fascination with a markedly immaterial and ephemeral event - the reading of works of fiction - come to coincide with what appears to be a gradual materialization of human subjects: men and women who increasingly manage to envision themselves transfigured, as the century wears on, into machines, animals, and even, in the work of the Marquis de Sade, tables and chairs? In what way did the spread of new philosophies of matter depend upon the ability of readers to perceive certain figures of speech as literally and immediately true - to imagine themselves as fully material bodies even as they found themselves most deeply compelled by disembodied literary forms? More broadly, in what sense does the act of reading literature alter and transfigure our perceptions of what is, and can be, real? Voluptuous Philosophy articulates the gradual coming into being of literature as a distinct arena of textual production with the rise of an enlightened reader who remains abstracted from the bodily symptoms that any given piece of writing may induce in him. The very definition of "the literary" as an autonomous field, this book suggests, may, ironically, be dependent upon the simultaneous construction of a material world that remains fully immune to its effects.

Author : Linda Grant
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0802133495

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Sexing the Millennium by Linda Grant Pdf

Joan Smith has said that "Linda Grant is on the side of sex and on the side of women," and Sexing the Millennium is a compellingly thorough examination of the colossal social shifts catalyzed by that brief period when sex was free from the threats of both pregnancy and disease.

Author : Jonathan David Gross
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0742511626

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Byron by Jonathan David Gross Pdf

Byron: The Erotic Liberal explores the relationship between Byron's erotic life and his political commitments, placing his poetry in the context of the work of other aristocratic liberals such as Madame de Stael.

Author : Henry Martyn Lloyd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319971964

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Sade’s Philosophical System in its Enlightenment Context by Henry Martyn Lloyd Pdf

This book connects the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade—one of the most notorious, iconic, and yet poorly-understood figures within the history of European thought—with the broader themes of the Enlightenment. Rather than seeing himself as a mere pornographer, Sade understood himself as continuing the progressive tradition of French Enlightenment philosophy. Sade aspired to be a philosophe. This book uses intellectual history and the history of philosophy to reconstruct Sade’s philosophical ‘system’ and its historical context. Within the period’s discourse of sensibility Sade draws on the philosophical and the literary to form a relatively sophisticated ‘system’ which he deploys to critically engage with the two major strands of eighteenth-century ethical theory: the moral sense and natural law traditions. This work is of interest to: ‘Continental’ Philosophy, Critical Theory, French Studies, the History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Literary Studies, the History of Moral Philosophy, and Enlightenment Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1676
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1104676777

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Libertine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Shadwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:314961460

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The Libertine by Thomas Shadwell Pdf

Author : Dorota Golańska,Aleksandra M. Różalska,Suzanne Clisby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000571356

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Investigating Cultures of Equality by Dorota Golańska,Aleksandra M. Różalska,Suzanne Clisby Pdf

This volume explores the processes of investigating cultures of equality and sets out an epistemological framework for generating a more just and response-able knowledge. It offers a tapestry of inventive, self-reflexive, collective, and situated praxis of conducting politically informed research. Such efforts contest—or occasionally reinvent—the social and cultural worlds that we currently inhabit, in an attempt at building cultures of equality across different locations and contexts. The book engages with the idea of producing knowledge with others, indicating the political potential of scientific practice and offering a view of knowledge as a collective affective-intellectual effort. It provides an inventory of creative engagements with concepts and methodologies enabling production of socially responsible knowledges. By critically exploring new possibilities of scientific inquiry, the contributors reflect on how knowledge can be generated to serve the political agenda of movements for equality and social justice. The chapters also elucidate different conceptualisations of and approaches to who the researcher is and how they interact with cultural and social worlds.

Author : Tiffany Potter
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773518037

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Honest Sins by Tiffany Potter Pdf

The good-natured Georgian libertinism that emerged maintained the subversive social, religious, sexual, and philosophical tenets of the old libertinism, but misogynist brutality was replaced by freedom and autonomy for the individual, whether male or female.