The French Language in the Seventeenth Century

The French Language in the Seventeenth Century
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 574
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ISBN-10 : 0859913538
ISBN-13 : 9780859913539
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Synopsis The French Language in the Seventeenth Century by : Peter Rickard

The sixty French texts edited here are all direct commentaries, by contemporary authors, on the French language in the 17th century. By this time, French had begun to assert its independence; in its written and printed form it was being used for a wide variety of literary, technical and administrative purposes. Its practitioners not only successfully challenged the hitherto dominant position of Latin, but also began, for the first time, to discuss and analyse for its own sake the language which was now their preferred medium for expression -- hence, in the first half of the seventeenth century, a growing number of publications on the nature and characteristics of French. The texts demonstrate the sustained critical preoccupationwith the welfare of the French language in the 17th century, and illustrate the various ways in which the writers of the age contributed to its development as an instrument of literary expression and social intercourse.

Music and the Language of Love

Music and the Language of Love
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 409
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ISBN-10 : 9780253000859
ISBN-13 : 0253000858
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Music and the Language of Love by : Catherine Gordon-Seifert

Simple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or excoriates a female object, were an influential vocal genre of the French Baroque era. In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary study, Catherine Gordon-Seifert analyzes the style of airs, which was based on rhetorical devices of lyric poetry, and explores the function and meaning of airs in French society, particularly the salons. She shows how airs deployed in both text and music an encoded language that was in sensuous contrast to polite society's cultivation of chaste love, strict gender roles, and restrained discourse.

Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France

Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 557
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ISBN-10 : 9781351902205
ISBN-13 : 1351902202
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Synopsis Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France by : Faith E. Beasley

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.

The Study of Language in 17th-century England

The Study of Language in 17th-century England
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9789027245359
ISBN-13 : 9027245355
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Synopsis The Study of Language in 17th-century England by : Vivian Salmon

This volume brings together a number of papers by Vivian Salmon, previously published in various journals and collections that are unfamiliar, and perhaps even inaccessible, to historians of the study of language. The central theme of the volume is the study of language in England in the 17th century. Papers in the first section treat aspects of the history of language teaching. The second section consists of three articles on the history of grammatical theory. The papers in the third and final section deal with the search for the universal language .

Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-century France

Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-century France
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Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 333
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ISBN-10 : 9780195036732
ISBN-13 : 0195036735
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-century France by : Sharon Kettering

A bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown extended its control over the provinces and laid the foundations for a centralized state by removing patronage power from the provincial governors and putting it instead in the hands of newly-created provincial power brokers--regional notables who cooperated with the Paris ministers in exchange for their patronage.

The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050

The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 052180079X
ISBN-13 : 9780521800792
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Synopsis The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050 by : MacGregor Knox

This book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century.

The French Language Today

The French Language Today
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 9781136903281
ISBN-13 : 1136903283
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The French Language Today by : Adrian Battye

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the French language from the perspective of modern linguistics. Features include a further reading guide at the end of each chapter, a glossary of linguistic terms, a bibliography and index.

Relations & Relationships in Seventeenth-century French Literature

Relations & Relationships in Seventeenth-century French Literature
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Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 3823362216
ISBN-13 : 9783823362210
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Relations & Relationships in Seventeenth-century French Literature by : Jennifer Robin Perlmutter

This volume is devoted to the variety of relationships that defined France and ist citizens. Man's connection with God is explored, the travel raelation and the particular hierarchy that exists between a director and a dramatist, respectively. These themes are further addressed in the articles that follow on relationships of authority, Catholics and Protestants, books and Illustrations, literary genres, travel relations, aesthetics and ethics and family relationships.

Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England

Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9781351946964
ISBN-13 : 135194696X
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England by : Gesa Stedman

Gesa Stedman's ambitious new study is a comprehensive account of cross-channel cultural exchanges between seventeenth-century France and England, and includes discussion of a wide range of sources and topics. Literary texts, garden design, fashion, music, dance, food, the book market, and the theatre as well as key historical figures feature in the book. Importantly, Stedman concentrates on the connection between actual, material transfer and its symbolic representation in both visual and textual sources, investigating material exchange processes in order to shed light on the connection between actual and symbolic exchange. Individual chapters discuss exchanges instigated by mediators such as Henrietta Maria and Charles II, and textual and visual representations of cultural exchange with France in poetry, restoration comedies, fashion discourse, and in literary devices and characters. Well-written and accessible, Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England provides needed insight into the field of cultural exchange, and will be of interest to both literary scholars and cultural historians.

The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture

The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9780192516879
ISBN-13 : 0192516876
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture by : Helena Taylor

Seventeenth-century France saw one of the most significant 'culture wars' Europe has ever known. Culminating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, this was a confrontational, transitional time for the reception of the classics. Helena Taylor explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman poet, Ovid, within this charged atmosphere. To date, criticism has focused on the reception of Ovid's enormously influential work in this period, but little attention has been paid to Ovid's lives and their uses. Through close analysis of a diverse corpus, which includes prefatory Lives, novels, plays, biographical dictionaries, poetry, and memoirs, this study investigates how the figure of Ovid was used to debate literary taste and modernity and to reflect on translation practice. It shows how the narrative of Ovid's life was deployed to explore the politics and poetics of exile writing; and to question the relationship between fiction and history. In so doing, this book identifies two paradoxes: although an ancient poet, Ovid became key to the formulation of aspects of self-consciously 'modern' cultural movements; and while Ovid's work might have adorned the royal palaces of Versailles, the poetry he wrote after being exiled by the Emperor Augustus made him a figure through which to question the relationship between authority and narrative. The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture not only nuances understanding of both Ovid and life-writing in this period, but also offers a fresh perspective on classical reception: its paradoxes, uses, and quarrels.