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33 produkter
The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque
Inbunden, 2019
3241 kr
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Few periods in history are so fundamentally contradictory as the Baroque, the culture flourishing from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries in Europe. When we hear the term Baroque, the first images that come to mind are symmetrically designed gardens in French chateaux, scenic …
Oxford Handbook of the Baroque
E-bok, 2019
2551 kr
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Few periods in history are so fundamentally contradictory as the Baroque, the culture flourishing from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries in Europe. When we hear the term âBaroque,â the first images that come to mind are symmetrically designed gardens in French chateaux , scenic …
Oxford Handbook of the Baroque
E-bok, 2019
2551 kr
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Few periods in history are so fundamentally contradictory as the Baroque, the culture flourishing from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries in Europe. When we hear the term âBaroque,â the first images that come to mind are symmetrically designed gardens in French chateaux , scenic …
French Literature
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2010
106 kr
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The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers of French, and also to a global audience reached through translations and film adaptations. The first great works of this repertory were written in the …
French Literature
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2010
106 kr
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The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers of French, and also to a global audience reached through translations and film adaptations. The first great works of this repertory were written in the …
Women and Irony in Molière's Comedies of Marriage
Inbunden, 2023
1435 kr
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This is a book about how Molière, France's most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship. Though justly celebrated for his mastery of physical comedy and farce, one of Molière's key moves was to pay attention to the way …
Women and Irony in Moliere's Comedies of Marriage
E-bok, 2023
1286 kr
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This is a book about how Molière, France''s most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship. Though justly celebrated for his mastery of physical comedy and farce, one of Molière''s key moves was to pay attention to the way …
Women and Irony in Moliere's Comedies of Marriage
E-bok, 2024
1286 kr
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This is a book about how Molière, France''s most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship. Though justly celebrated for his mastery of physical comedy and farce, one of Molière''s key moves was to pay attention to the way …
French Literature
A Very Short Introduction
Häftad, 2026
130 kr
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring People have been writing literary works in French for a thousand years, since the 11th century. What began as a small stream of texts copied by hand has become a vast river of printed poems, dramas, novels, stories, biographies, and …
French Literature
A Very Short Introduction
Häftad, 2010
130 kr
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The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers of French, and also to a global audience reached through translations and film adaptations. The first great works of this repertory were written in the …
Exemplum
The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy
Häftad, 2014
609 kr
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Examples, crucial links between discourse and society's view of reality, have until now been largely neglected in literary criticism. In the first book-length study of the rhetoric of example, John Lyons situates this figure by comparing it with more frequently studied tropes such as metaphor and …
Exemplum
The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy
Inbunden, 2016
2655 kr
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Examples, crucial links between discourse and society's view of reality, have until now been largely neglected in literary criticism. In the first book-length study of the rhetoric of example, John Lyons situates this figure by comparing it with more frequently studied tropes such as metaphor and …
Phantom of Chance
From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Av John D Lyons
E-bok, 2011
375 kr
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How the classical and medieval conceptions of Fortune shifted to the modern notion of chance.Is chance nothing more than a projection of human desire on to the world?In this fascinating new study, John Lyons argues that the idea of chance assumed new vigour in the late Renaissance, when converging …
Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France
Av John D. Lyons, Kathleen Wine
Inbunden, 2009
1751 kr
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In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. In France, a major terrain of this intellectual debate, the chance hypothesis engaged writers coming from …
Before Imagination
Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau
Inbunden, 2005
976 kr
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Before imagination became the transcendent and creative faculty promoted by the Romantics, it was for something quite different. Not reserved to a privileged few, imagination was instead considered a universal ability that each person could direct in practical ways. To imagine something meant to …
Tragedy and the Return of the Dead
Häftad, 2018
508 kr
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Early modernity rediscovered tragedy in the dramas and the theoretical writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Attempting to make new tragic fictions, writers like Shakespeare, Webster, Hardy, Corneille, and Racine created a dramatic form that would probably have been unrecognizable to the …
Tragedy and the Return of the Dead
Inbunden, 2018
1311 kr
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Early modernity rediscovered tragedy in the dramas and the theoretical writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Attempting to make new tragic fictions, writers like Shakespeare, Webster, Hardy, Corneille, and Racine created a dramatic form that would probably have been unrecognizable to the …
Critical Tales
New Studies of the "Heptameron" and Early Modern Culture
Av John D. Lyons, Mary B. McKinley
Inbunden, 1993
1116 kr
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Appearing in print for the first time in 1558, the book that we now know as the Heptameron is the work of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre. Left incomplete, but dearly modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, the Heptameron consists of a frame narrative and seventy-two tales told by five men and five women …
The Cambridge Companion to French Literature
Inbunden, 2015
1760 kr
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In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today's multi-ethnic …
The Cambridge Companion to French Literature
Häftad, 2015
647 kr
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In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today's multi-ethnic …
Cambridge Companion to French Literature
E-bok, 2015
488 kr
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In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today''s multi-ethnic …
Cambridge Companion to French Literature
E-bok, 2015
474 kr
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In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today''s multi-ethnic …
Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France
Av John D. Lyons, Kathleen Wine
E-bok, 2016
956 kr
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In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. In France, a major terrain of this intellectual debate, the chance hypothesis engaged writers coming from …
Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France
Av John D. Lyons, Kathleen Wine
E-bok, 2016
926 kr
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In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. In France, a major terrain of this intellectual debate, the chance hypothesis engaged writers coming from …
Phantom of Chance
From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Av John D Lyons
Häftad, 2027
289 kr
Kommande
Is chance nothing more than a projection of human desire on to the world?In this fascinating new study, John Lyons argues that the idea of chance assumed new vigour in the late Renaissance, when converging philosophical and literary currents demystified the powerful concept of Fortune, sensitizing …
Exemplum
The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy
E-bok, 2014
820 kr
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Examples, crucial links between discourse and society's view of reality, have until now been largely neglected in literary criticism. In the first book-length study of the rhetoric of example, John Lyons situates this figure by comparing it with more frequently studied tropes such as metaphor and …
Critical Tales
New Studies of the "Heptameron" and Early Modern Culture
Av John D. Lyons, Mary B. McKinley
E-bok, 2016
1331 kr
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Appearing in print for the first time in 1558, the book that we now know as the Heptameron is the work of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre. Left incomplete, but dearly modeled on Boccaccio''s Decameron , the Heptameron consists of a frame narrative and seventy-two tales told by five men and five women …
Dark Thread
From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales
Inbunden, 2019
1208 kr
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In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the connections between works from early modernity …
Dark Thread
From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales
Häftad, 2019
529 kr
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In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the connections between works from early modernity …
