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Birberick shows how La Fontaine invokes many of the defining paradigms of French classicism but reconfigures them in fundamental ways. What results is a new idea of reading and writing in the 17th century, growing out of a rhetoric of concealment, dispersion and indirection.

This collection of essays focuses on the concept of perfection in various domains during the 17th century in France.

The Art of Instruction: Pedagogy and Literature in 17th-Century France aims to add a new dimension to the scholarly discussion on how culture is inculcated by focusing on the interplay between aesthetic forms and pedagogical agendas. The nine essays in the collection take into account the full range of meanings associated with the term art

Multidisciplinary studies by leading scholars reflect on the writings of early modern French nuns. This text includes bibliographies, a detailed index, and checklist of original sources.

This volume examines theatricality in French literature and art from the early Renaissance to the 18th century.

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Guest editor Hoffman, MLA-prize-winning author of "Montaigne's Career, " presents a series of essays seeking to rehabilitate and retarget the investigation of literary achievement through the authors' lives.

Reprint of an internationally praised collection of essays by a team of cutting-edge La Fontaine scholars.