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Author : Erica Harth
Release : 1983
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Ideology and Culture in Seventeenth-century France by : Erica Harth
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Author : Michael Moriarty
Release : 2009-06-18
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France by : Michael Moriarty
Download or read book Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France written by Michael Moriarty. This book was released on 2009-06-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the use of the crucial concept of 'taste' in the works of five major seventeenth-century French authors, Méré, Saint Evremond, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère and Boileau. It combines close readings of important texts with a thoroughgoing political analysis of seventeenth-century French society in terms of class and gender. Dr Moriarty shows that far from being timeless and universal, the term 'taste' is culture-specific, shifting according to the needs of a writer and his social group. The notion of 'taste' not only helped to shape a new dominant culture, but also registered the conflicts within that culture between a view of taste that presupposted the values of 'polite society' as an exclusive (though not necessarily aristocratic) group, and a view that stressed the value of the classical-humanist tradition as a source of standards ratified by a broader public. this study sheds light not only on the central concept, but also on the individual authors discussed and on the norms of French classical literature in general.
Author : David Maland
Release : 1970
Genre : France
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Book Synopsis Culture and Society in Seventeenth-century France by : David Maland
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Author : Elise Noël McMahon
Release : 1998
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Classics Incorporated by : Elise Noël McMahon
Download or read book Classics Incorporated written by Elise Noël McMahon. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work Professor McMahon takes a new approach to interpreting the most canonized century in French literature. By viewing literature as essentially a cultural practice, she offers an unconventional reading of canonical masterpieces of the era (Corneille's Medee, Moliere's La Bourgeois gentilhomme, Racine's Phedre, and La Fontaine's Fables) to the extent that these works are compared to "non-literary" texts which focus on the human body. "Classics Incorporated" draws on extensive archival research into such unfamiliar historical sources as cookbooks, shopping guides, treatises on medicine and monstrosity, and dance manuals. Because of this insistence on treating literature as part of a given culture and historicising texts in a novel manner, "Classics Incorporated" stands apart as a critical study that can appeal to a diverse audience: those who are interested in cultural criticism, popular culture, cultural history, and critical theory alike.
Author : Erica Harth
Release : 1983
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Ideology and Culture in Seventeenth-century France by : Erica Harth
Download or read book Ideology and Culture in Seventeenth-century France written by Erica Harth. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
