Figurations Of France
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Figurations Of France
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Author : Marcus Keller
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-22
Figurations Of France written by Marcus Keller and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Figurations of France: Literary Nation-Building in Times of Crisis (1550-1650), Marcus Keller explores the often indirect and subtle ways in which key texts of early modern French literature, from Joachim Du Bellay’s Défense et illustration de la langue française to Corneille’s Le Cid, contribute to the fiction of France as a nation. Through his fresh take on these and other classics, he shows that they not only create the French as an imaginary community but also provide venues for an incisive critique of the political and cultural construct that underpins the modern nation-state. Current theories of nationhood, in particular the concepts of the nation form and fictive ethnicity (Étienne Balibar), inform the close readings of Du Bellay’s Défense, Ronsard’s Discours, d’Aubigné’s Tragiques, Montaigne’s Essays, Malherbe’s odes, and Corneille’s Le Cid and Horace. They reveal the imaginary power and unifying force of early modern figurations of France that come to bear in this heteregoneous corpus of French literature, with texts ranging from manifesto and epic poem to essay and tragedy. Situating each author and text in their particular historical context, the study suggests that the literary invention of France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is as abundant as it is conceptually innovative: Du Bellay, for example, develops an idea of France by portraying the French language as a pruned and grafted tree while d’Aubigné proposes to think of the French as a nuclear but fatherless family. Blood functions as a highly charged metaphor of nationhood in all texts. Opening up new perspectives on these canonical works, the focus on literary nation-building also puts them into unexpected and thought-provoking relationships to each other. Figurations of France deliberately crosses the fictive boundary between the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries and argues that, in terms of imaginary nation-building, the contours that delineate the early modern period and separate it from what we call the modern era quickly begin to dissolve. Ultimately, the book makes the case for early modern literature as a creative and critical discourse, able to nourish and nuance our thinking about the nation as the postmodern nation-state is increasingly called into question by the economical, political, and cultural effects of globalization. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Figurations Of France
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language : en
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Release Date : 2011
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Figurations Of The Feminine In The Early French Women S Press 1758 1848
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Author : Siobhán McIlvanney
language : en
Publisher: Contemporary French and Franco
Release Date : 2019
Figurations Of The Feminine In The Early French Women S Press 1758 1848 written by Siobhán McIlvanney and has been published by Contemporary French and Franco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
The origins and early years of the French women's press represent a pivotal period in the history of French women's self-expression and their feminist and cultural consciousness. Through a range of insightful textual analyses, this book highlights the political significance of this critically neglected literary medium.
Figurations Of The Feminine In The Early French Women S Press 1758 1848
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Author : Siobhán McIlvanney
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-28
Figurations Of The Feminine In The Early French Women S Press 1758 1848 written by Siobhán McIlvanney and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-28 with History categories.
The origins and early years of the French women’s press represent a pivotal period in the history of French women’s self-expression and their feminist and cultural consciousness. Through a range of insightful textual analyses, this book highlights the political significance of this critically neglected literary medium.
The Visual World Of French Theory
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Author : Sarah Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Visual World Of French Theory written by Sarah Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art and philosophy categories.
This work focuses on the series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement.
Memory And Community In Sixteenth Century France
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Author : David P. LaGuardia
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
Memory And Community In Sixteenth Century France written by David P. LaGuardia and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France engages the question of remembering from a number of different perspectives. It examines the formation of communities within diverse cultural, religious, and geographical contexts, especially in relation to the material conditions for producing texts and discourses that were the foundations for collective practices of memory. The Wars of Religion in France gave rise to numerous narrative and graphic representations of bodies remembered as icons and signifiers of the religious ’troubles.’ The multiple sites of these clashes were filled with sound, language, and diverse kinds of signs mediated by print, writing, and discourses that recalled past battles and opposed different factions. The volume demonstrates that memory and community interacted constantly in sixteenth-century France, producing conceptual frames that defined the conflicting groups to which individuals belonged, and from which they derived their identities. The ongoing conflicts of the Wars hence made it necessary for people both to remember certain events and to forget others. As such, memory was one of the key ideas in a period defined by its continuous reformulations of the present as a forum in which contradictory accounts of the recent past competed with one another for hegemony. One of the aims of Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France is to remedy the lack of scholarship on this important memorial function, which was one of the intellectual foundations of the late French Renaissance and its fractured communities.
American Pop Art In France
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Author : Liam Considine
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-28
American Pop Art In France written by Liam Considine and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-28 with Art categories.
Pop art was essential to the Americanization of global art in the 1960s, yet it engendered resistance and adaptation abroad in equal measure, especially in Paris. From the end of the Algerian War of Independence and the opening of Ileana Sonnabend’s gallery for American Pop art in Paris in 1962, to the silkscreen poster workshops of May ’68, this book examines critical adaptations of Pop motifs and pictorial devices across French painting, graphic design, cinema and protest aesthetics. Liam Considine argues that the transatlantic dispersion of Pop art gave rise to a new politics of the image that challenged Americanization and prefigured the critiques and contradictions of May ’68.
Polemic And Literature Surrounding The French Wars Of Religion
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Author : Jeff Kendrick
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-09-23
Polemic And Literature Surrounding The French Wars Of Religion written by Jeff Kendrick and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-23 with History categories.
Polemic and Literature Surrounding the French Wars of Religion demonstrates that literature and polemic interacted constantly in sixteenth-century France, constructing ideological frameworks that defined the various groups to which individuals belonged and through which they defined their identities. Contributions explore both literary texts (prose, poetry, and theater) and more intentionally polemical texts that fall outside of the traditional literary genres. Engaging the continuous casting and recasting of opposing worldviews, this collection of essays examines literature's use of polemic and polemic's use of literature as seminal intellectual developments stemming from the religious and social turmoil that characterized this period in France.
Culture And Customs Of France
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Author : W. Scott Haine Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2006-10-30
Culture And Customs Of France written by W. Scott Haine Ph.D. and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-30 with Social Science categories.
The French are of perennial interest, for, among other things, their style, their cuisine and wine, and their cultural output. Culture and Customs of France is a thoroughly jam-packed narrative through the glories that France continues to offer the world. The volume is a boon for preparing country reports, a must-read for travelers, and perfect for culture studies. Chapters on the land, people, and history, religion, social customs, gender, family, and marriage, cinema and media, literature, food and fashion, architecture and art, and performing arts are current and pleasurable to read.
France And The French In The Second Half Of The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Karl Hillebrand
language : en
Publisher: London : Trübner
Release Date : 1881
France And The French In The Second Half Of The Nineteenth Century written by Karl Hillebrand and has been published by London : Trübner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with France categories.