Pierre Corneille Revisited

Pierre Corneille Revisited
Author: Claire L. Carlin
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Series Editors: Bernth Lindfors, University of Texas at Austin; Robert Lecker, McGill University; David OConnell, Georgia State University; David William Foster, Arizona State University; Janet Pérez, Texas Tech University.TWAYNES UNITED STATES AUTHORS, ENGLISH AUTHORS, and WORLD AUTHORS Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writers work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading the Authors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives.

Women Reading Corneille

Women Reading Corneille
Author: Claire L. Carlin
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Women Reading Corneille: Feminist Psychocriticisms of 'Le Cid' is a series of readings from the famous seventeenth-century French play, Pierre Corneille's Le Cid (1637). Using a reader-centered approach, this study applies five different examples of feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism to Corneille's masterpiece in order to illustrate the enduring interest of the play. At the same time, it explores several issues in the ongoing debates within feminist criticism. Topics such as biological essentialism, identity construction, and the conflict between Anglo-American and French feminist theory are discussed in the work of Carol Gilligan, Jessica Benjamin, Jane Gallop, Juliette Mitchell, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva. Le Cid furnishes the framework for five divergent readings grounded in the seventeenth-century context, despite their emphasis on feminist reading practices of our era.

Perfection

Perfection
Author: Anne Lynn Birberick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This collection of essays focuses on the concept of perfection in various domains during the 17th century in France.

Europe 1450 to 1789

Europe 1450 to 1789
Author: Jonathan Dewald
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780684312002

Online version of the 6-volume work, published: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004.

Beyond the Page

Beyond the Page
Author: Angélica Jiménez Huízar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This scholarly monograph offers a fresh look at modern experimental poetry in Spanish, Portuguese and French produced in Latin America. The work uses a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to examine how these experimental poetic forms can be best interpreted and understood through a performative lens. Examined structures and textures inherent in these performed works vary: they include paintings, typographical art, optophonetic (visual representations of sounds) techniques, and music, to name only a few examples. The investigative scope of the study is large---it includes texts from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Brazil and includes texts in Spanish, Portuguese and French. Through detailed analysis Professor Huizar demonstrates what we can read in the visual and sound components of these poems as performance on a page, and while these may be limited on the bound text, they do produce a "performativity" that is predictive of current technological innovations of the canon whose performative and interactive aspects include the latest multi-media technologies resulting in forms as cyper poetry and hypertextuality, electronic music and pictorial language. The textual analysis is informed by a variety of semiotic performance theories (Elam, de Marinis and Pavis). The final chapter deals with currents in today's Latin America poetry world with an emphasis on the technological and cultural energies that are revolutionizing the poetic and linguistic content of the region. "This is one of the first studies in this area of research and opens new ground for specialists. It offers a comprehensive as well as an analytical view of the interdisciplinary practices ...something lacking in previous studies in Latin American poetry. Recommended." Professor Laura Lopez-Fernandez, University of Canterbury

The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature

The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
Author: David M. Posner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1999-11-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139426680

This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Ranging widely from Castiglione and French courtesy manuals, through Montaigne and Bacon, to the literature of the Grand Siècle, David Posner examines the structures of public identity in the period. He focuses on the developing tensions between, on the one hand, literary or imaginative representations of 'nobility' and, on the other, the increasingly problematic historical position of the nobility themselves. These tensions produce a transformation in the notion of the noble self as a performance, and eventually doom court society and its theatrical mode of self-presentation. Situated at the intersection of rhetorical and historical theories of interpretation, this book contributes significantly to our understanding of the role of literature both in analysing and in shaping social identity.