Hellenic Whispers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hellenic Whispers write by Susanna Phillippo. This book was released on 2013. Hellenic Whispers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book builds a picture of how Greek literature was reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century French tragedy. The text explores the complex interactions surrounding these adaptations, involving the input of scribes, editors, translators and earlier authors, and asks the important question of what these dramatists conceived of themselves as doing.
Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature write by Dr Marianne Legault. This book was released on 2012-12-28. Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining literary discourses on female friendship and intimacy in seventeenth-century France, this study takes as its premise the view that, unlike men, women have been denied for centuries the possibility of same sex friendship. The author explores the effect of this homosocial and homopriviledged heritage on the deployment and constructions of female friendship and homoerotic relationships as thematic narratives in works by male and female writers in seventeenth-century France. The book consists of three parts: the first surveys the history of male thinkers' denial of female friendship, concluding with a synopsis of the cultural representations of female same-sex practices. The second analyzes female intimacy and homoerotism as imagined, appropriated and finally repudiated by Honoré d'Urfé's pastoral novel, L'Astrée, and Isaac de Benserade's seemingly lesbian-friendly comedy, Iphis et Iante. The third turns to unprecedented depictions of female intimate and homoerotic bonds in Madeleine de Scudéry's novel Mathilde and Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force's fairy tale Plus Belle que Fée. This study reveals a female literary genealogy of intimacies between women in seventeenth-century France, and adds to the research in lesbian and queer studies, fields in which pre-eighteenth-century French literary texts are rare.
Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature write by Bernadette Höfer. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bernadette Höfer's innovative and ambitious monograph argues that the epistemology of the Cartesian mind/body dualism, and its insistence on the primacy of analytic thought over bodily function, has surprisingly little purchase in texts by prominent classical writers. In this study Höfer explores how Surin, Molière, Lafayette, and Racine represent interconnections of body and mind that influence behaviour, both voluntary and involuntary, and that thus disprove the classical notion of the mind as distinct from and superior to the body. The author's interdisciplinary perspective utilizes early modern medical and philosophical treatises, as well as contemporary medical compilations in the disciplines of psychosomatic medicine, neurobiology, and psychoanalysis, to demonstrate that these seventeenth-century French writers established a view of human existence that fully anticipates current thought regarding psychosomatic illness.
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales write by Bronwyn Reddan. This book was released on 2020-12. Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses' scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the "right" way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.
Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France
Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France write by Faith E. Beasley. This book was released on 2017-09-29. Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole. In the second half of the book Beasley examines how historians and literary critics subsequently portrayed the seventeenth century literary realm, which became identified with the great reign of Louis XIV and designated the official canon of French literature. Beasley argues that in a rewriting of this past, the salons were reconfigured in order to advance an alternative view of this premier moment of French culture and of the literary masterpieces that developed out of it. Through her analysis of how the seventeenth century salon has been defined and transmitted to posterity, Beasley illuminates facets of France's collective memory, and the powers that constituted it in the past and that are still working to define it today.
