Moliere And Paradox

Author : James F. Gaines
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3823375776
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Molière and Paradox written by James F. Gaines and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a wide perspective on Molière ́plays, this study opens a new opportunity for understanding the dramatist ́s links to the tradition and methods of Sextus Empiricus and his followers. By concentrating on the multiple uses of paradox in language, thought , and stagecraft, it updates Molière studies throught the major philosophical research of the past twenty years, which have seen a resurgent recognition of Sextus ́s role in early modern thought. Designed to be useful to students of theatre and philosophy as well as to French literature specialists, it enriches the interpretation of Moliere ́s major masterpieces, as well as showing the evolution of skeptical influences through the course of his entire career as writer and actor. Characters such as Dom Juan, Arnolphe, Tartuffe, Alceste and Sganarelle assume their full importance in the philosophical dialogue of the Age of Louis XIV.

Author : Robert McBride
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sceptical Vision of Molière written by Robert McBride and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James F. Gaines
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031307657X
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Molière Encyclopedia written by James F. Gaines and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the French playwright Moli^D`ere became one of the most influential dramatists of the 17th century. His comedies shaped the development of theater in Europe, inspired his contemporaries in England, and left a lasting dramatic legacy after his death in 1673. Moli^D`re has also inspired a vast body of scholarship, and recent work has dispelled many of the myths surrounding his career. This reference provides English-speaking readers with a current and comprehensive guide to his life and works. Hundreds of A-Z entries cover topics related to his life, works, and theatrical career, including: Plays; Individual characters; Historical persons; Allusions; Influences; Cultural institutions; And much more. This scrupulously researched volume relies on verifiable facts, giving scant attention to the romantic fiction surrounding the playwright. Many of the entries list works for further reading. A chronology outlines the chief events of Moli^D`re's life and his contributions to the stage. The volume concludes with a bibliography.

Author : Jan Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316999424
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Molière in Context written by Jan Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to Molière's world and his afterlife, this is an accessible contextual guide for academics, undergraduates and theatre professionals alike. Interdisciplinary and diverse in scope, each chapter offers a different perspective on the social, cultural, intellectual, and theatrical environment within which Molière operated, as well as demonstrating his subsequent impact both within France and across the world. Offering fresh insight for those working in the fields of French Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies and French History, Molière in Context is an exceptional tribute to the premier French dramatist on the 400th anniversary of his birth.

Author : Augustin Frédéric Hamon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twentieth Century Molière written by Augustin Frédéric Hamon and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317097416
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy written by Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study devoted to this topic, Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy offers an important contribution to scholarship on the theatre as well as on early modern attitudes in France, specifically on the subject of lying and deception. Unusually for a scholarly work on seventeenth-century theatre, it is particularly alert to plays as performed pieces and not simply printed texts. The study also distinguishes itself by offering original readings of Molière alongside innovative analyses of other playwrights. The chapters offer fresh insights on well-known plays by Molière and Pierre Corneille but also invite readers to discover lesser-known works of the time (by writers such as Benserade, Thomas Corneille, Dufresny and Rotrou). Through comparative and sustained close readings, including a linguistic and speech act approach, a historical survey of texts with an analysis of different versions and a study of irony, the reader is shown the manifest ways in which different playwrights incorporate the comedic tropes of lying and scheming, confusion and unmasking. Drawing particular attention to the levels of communicative or mis-communicative exchanges on the character-to-character axis and the character-to-audience axis, this work examines the process whereby characters in the comedies construct narratives designed to trick, misdirect, dazzle, confuse or exploit their interlocutors. In the different incarnations of seducer, parasite, cross-dresser, duplicitous narrator/messenger and deluded mythomaniac, the author underscores the way in which the figure of the liar both entertains and troubles, making it a fascinating subject worthy of detailed investigation.

Author : Alvin Eustis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110873397
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Molière as Ironic Contemplator written by Alvin Eustis and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin R. Barber
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412817530
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Artist and Political Vision written by Benjamin R. Barber and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and politics are often regarded as denizens of different realms, but few artists have been comfortable with the notion of a purely aesthetic definition of art. The artist has a public and thus political vision of the world interpreted by his art no less than the statesman and the legislator have a creative vision of the world they wish to make. The sixteen original essays in this volume bear eloquent witness to this interpenetration of art and politics. Each confronts the intersection of the aesthetic and the social, each is concerned with the interface of poetic vision and political vision, of reflection and action. They take art in the broadest sense, ranging over poets, dramatists, novelists, essayists, and filmmakers. Their focus is on art and its political dilemmas, not simply on the artist. They consider the issues raised for politics and culture by alienation, violence, modernization, technology, democracy, progress, and revolution. And they debate the capacity of art to stimulate social change and incite revolution, the temptations of social control of culture and of political censorship, the uncertain relationship between art and history, the impact of economic structure on artistic creation and of economic class on artistic product, the common ground between art and legislation and between crea-tivitv and control.

Author : Michael Call
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557537089
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Would-be Author written by Michael Call and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first full-length study to examine Molière's evolving (and at times contradictory) authorial strategies, as evidenced both by his portrayal of authors and publication within the plays and by his own interactions with the seventeenth-century Parisian publishing industry. Historians of the book have described the time period that coincides with Molière's theatrical activity as centrally important to the development of authors' rights and to the professionalization of the literary field. A seventeenth-century author, however, was not so much born as negotiated through often acrimonious relations in a world of new and dizzying possibilities.The learning curve was at times steep and unpleasant, as Molière discovered when his first Parisian play was stolen by a rogue publisher. Nevertheless, the dramatist proved to be a quick learner; from his first published play in 1660 until his death in 1673, Molière changed from a reluctant and victimized author to an innovator (or, according to his enemies, even a swindler) who aggressively secured the rights to his plays, stealing them back when necessary. Through such shrewdness, he acquired for himself publication privileges and conditions relatively unknown in an era before copyright. As Molière himself wrote, making people laugh was "une étrange entreprise" (La Critique de L'École des femmes, 1663). To an even greater degree, comedic authorship for the playwright was a constant work in progress, and in this sense, "Molière," the stage name that became a pen name, represents the most carefully elaborated of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin's invented characters.

Author : J. A. E. Curtis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521326710
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulgakov's Last Decade written by J. A. E. Curtis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-04-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1987, this book was the first full-length interpretative study in English of the later writings of the outstanding Soviet novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940). The focus is the 1930s, the period when Bulgakov was writing The Master and Margarita, an extraordinary novel that has had a profound impact in the Soviet Union and which is now generally regarded as his masterpiece. Using material from Soviet archives and libraries, Dr Curtis suggests that Bulgakov's fundamental preoccupation in this movel with the destiny of literature and of the writer is reflected in other major works of the same period, in particular his writings on Pushkin and Molière. Bulgakov emerges as a belated romantic, a figure unique on the early Soviet literacy scene.