Describing the theater of Moliere as a systematic attack on Cartesian modernism, this book is richly theoretical with incisive and specific treatment of such plays as "The Miser" and "The Misanthrope.
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.
Runyon demonstrates the intimate connectedness between each fable and the next as well as the sequential unity of each of La Fontaine's masterpieces. (Poetry)
In the shifting fields of pre-Revolutionary political thought occur Veiras and Challe's conflicting versions of utopia, the individualization of sovereignty and the rise panoptism.
A broad-based, innovative survey of rewriting in several modalities, this volume includes translation, adaptation, recycling, appropriation, and remediation, along with the effect of each on form and meaning, kind and canon, historical and discursive continuity, as well as the conceptualizing of gender.
This major collection of essays on 18th century French literature in relation to Enlightenment culture includes the subjects of medicine, the art of conversation, devotional writing, gastronomy, divorce, and the Revolution.
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.
Originally published in 1994, this pioneering study looks empirically at the way allusion works in specific fictions and affects the reading process. Clear, concise definitions and distinctions are illustrated by close readings of Flaubert, Stendhal, Balzac, Zola, Proust, and Robbe-Grillet.