Oeuvres Diverses 1644
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Oeuvres Diverses 1644
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Author : Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
language : fr
Publisher: Honoré Champion
Release Date : 1995
Oeuvres Diverses 1644 written by Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac and has been published by Honoré Champion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with French literature categories.
Dignified Retreat
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Author : Robert A. Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-31
Dignified Retreat written by Robert A. Schneider and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-31 with History categories.
Dignified Retreat is a panoramic study of the vibrant literary and intellectual culture that emerged in early seventeenth-century France following the devastating Wars of Religion. This was a period that not only witnessed the recovery of the country following these wars, and the emergence of a strong, 'absolutist' monarchy under the Bourbons, but also the rise and refinement of the French language and the development of a literary culture that would soon be known as French classicism. Casting his net over a wide range of writers and intellectuals, Robert A. Schneider has assembled a roster of more than 100 men and women of letters, those constituting what he calls the 'generation of 1630'. While diverse, and indeed divided between those who hewed to traditional humanism and others more attuned to 'modern' linguistic and literary developments, this cohort largely shared a commitment to a cultural renewal of France, its rise to prominence in the geopolitical arena of Europe, and the emergence of a strong centralized monarchy. They depended on both the traditional aristocracy and the king's powerful minister, Cardinal Richelieu. But despite this dependency, these writers and intellectuals maintained a degree of independence and, more significantly, were the prime movers in crucial cultural developments that are too often identified with royal initiatives. For example, the author demonstrates that the Académie française, founded in 1635 by Richelieu, often considered formative in French cultural history, was actually more the result of the creative initiatives of these men of letters, which the savvy Cardinal only managed to co-opt and turn to the purposes of the crown.
Styles Of Enlightenment
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Author : Elena Russo
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2007-01-19
Styles Of Enlightenment written by Elena Russo and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Styles of Enlightenment argues that alongside its democratic ideals and its efforts to create a unified public sphere, the Enlightenment also displayed a tendency to erect rigid barriers when it came to matters of style and artistic expression. The French philosophes tackled the issue of the hierarchy of genres with surprising inflexibility, and they looked down on those forms of art that they saw as commercial, popular, and merely entertaining. They were convinced that the standard of taste was too important a matter to be left to the whims of the public and the vagaries of the marketplace: aesthetic judgment ought to belong to a few, enlightened minds who would then pass it on to the masses. Through readings of fictions, essays, memoirs, eulogies, and theatrical works by Fénelon, Bouhours, Marivaux, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Mercier, Thomas, and others, Styles of Enlightenment traces the stages of a confrontation between the virile philosophe and the effeminate worldly writer, "good" and "bad" taste, high art and frivolous entertainment, state patronage and the privately sponsored marketplace, the academic eulogy and worldly conversation. It teases out the finer points of division on the public battlefields of literature and politics and the new world of contesting sexual economies.
The Seventeenth Century Orange Nassau Library
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Author : A.D. Renting
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1993-01-01
The Seventeenth Century Orange Nassau Library written by A.D. Renting and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with History categories.
Edited with introduction and notes. With notes on the manuscripts by A.S. Korteweg.
Powerful Connections
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Author : Peter William Shoemaker
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2007
Powerful Connections written by Peter William Shoemaker and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Powerful Connections: The Poetics of Patronage in the Age of Louis XIII explores the role of patronage in shaping French literary culture between 1614 and 1661 - a period that witnessed both the rise of the early modern state under Richelieu and the beginnings of modern literary culture in the salons and academies. It includes readings of texts by authors such as Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Theophile de Viau, Charles Sorel, and Pierre Corneille that reveal the personal side of political power and its impact upon literary practice.
The General Biographical Dictionary Containing An Historical And Critical Account Of The Lives And Writings Of The Most Eminent Persons A New Ed By Alex Chalmers
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Author : Alexander Chalmers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1812
The General Biographical Dictionary Containing An Historical And Critical Account Of The Lives And Writings Of The Most Eminent Persons A New Ed By Alex Chalmers written by Alexander Chalmers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1812 with categories.
The Good Life In The Scientific Revolution
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Author : Matthew L. Jones
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
The Good Life In The Scientific Revolution written by Matthew L. Jones and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Science categories.
Amid the unrest, dislocation, and uncertainty of seventeenth-century Europe, readers seeking consolation and assurance turned to philosophical and scientific books that offered ways of conquering fears and training the mind—guidance for living a good life. The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution presents a triptych showing how three key early modern scientists, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibniz, envisioned their new work as useful for cultivating virtue and for pursuing a good life. Their scientific and philosophical innovations stemmed in part from their understanding of mathematics and science as cognitive and spiritual exercises that could create a truer mental and spiritual nobility. In portraying the rich contexts surrounding Descartes’ geometry, Pascal’s arithmetical triangle, and Leibniz’s calculus, Matthew L. Jones argues that this drive for moral therapeutics guided important developments of early modern philosophy and the Scientific Revolution.
Descartes S Fictions
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Author : Emma Gilby
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-15
Descartes S Fictions written by Emma Gilby and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Descartes's Fictions traces common movements in early modern philosophy and literary method. Emma Gilby reassesses the significance of Descartes's writing by bringing his philosophical output into contact with the literary treatises, exempla, and debates of his age. She argues that humanist theorizing about poetics represents a vital intellectual context for Descartes's work. She offers readings of the controversies to which this poetic theory gives rise, with particular reference to the genre of tragicomedy, questions of verisimilitude or plausibility, and the figures of Guez de Balzac and Pierre Corneille. Drawing on what Descartes says about, and to, his many contemporaries and correspondents embedded in the early modern republic of letters, this volume shows that poetics provides a repository of themes and images to which he returns repeatedly: fortune, method, error, providence, passion, and imagination, for instance. Like the poets and theorists of his age, Descartes is also drawn to the forms of attention that people may bring to his work. This interest finds expression in the mature Cartesian metaphysics of the Meditations, as well as, later, in the moral philosophy of his correspondence with Elisabeth of Bohemia or the Passions of the Soul. This volume thus bridges the gap between Cartesian criticism and late-humanist literary culture in France.
The General Biographical Dictionary
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Author : Alexander Chalmers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1812
The General Biographical Dictionary written by Alexander Chalmers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1812 with Biography categories.
A New And General Biographical Dictionary
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Author : William Owen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1784
A New And General Biographical Dictionary written by William Owen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1784 with Biography categories.