R. Darren Gobert
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804786386
- eISBN:
- 9780804788267
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804786386.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This chapter concerns acting after Descartes. It considers the Cartesian notion of interiority, whose ramifications are glimpsed in rehearsal burlesques of the period, such as The Female Wits, George ...
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This chapter concerns acting after Descartes. It considers the Cartesian notion of interiority, whose ramifications are glimpsed in rehearsal burlesques of the period, such as The Female Wits, George Villiers's The Rehearsal, and Samuel Foote's Diversions of the Morning. These burlesques borrowed from Molière's L'Impromptu de Versailles, which represented the relationship between actors' interiority and their physiological expressions. Molière thus anticipated the terms worked out in Charles Le Brun's Conférence sur l'expression générale et particulière, famous for inspiring treatises on “natural” acting in both France and England, such as Foote's Treatise on the Passions. Le Brun's theory, however, could not account for the particularities of mind-body union supplied by the individual actor. Thus the period saw the rehabilitation of the actor's reputation: a picture of actors as inherently more passionate than non-actors transformed into a picture of actors in greater control of their emotional channels.Less
This chapter concerns acting after Descartes. It considers the Cartesian notion of interiority, whose ramifications are glimpsed in rehearsal burlesques of the period, such as The Female Wits, George Villiers's The Rehearsal, and Samuel Foote's Diversions of the Morning. These burlesques borrowed from Molière's L'Impromptu de Versailles, which represented the relationship between actors' interiority and their physiological expressions. Molière thus anticipated the terms worked out in Charles Le Brun's Conférence sur l'expression générale et particulière, famous for inspiring treatises on “natural” acting in both France and England, such as Foote's Treatise on the Passions. Le Brun's theory, however, could not account for the particularities of mind-body union supplied by the individual actor. Thus the period saw the rehabilitation of the actor's reputation: a picture of actors as inherently more passionate than non-actors transformed into a picture of actors in greater control of their emotional channels.
Susan Mokhberi
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- November 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190884796
- eISBN:
- 9780190884826
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190884796.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History, Middle East History
Translations of Persian texts, fairy tales, and paintings reveal how French writers reinvented Persia to suit their own notions. French translations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were ...
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Translations of Persian texts, fairy tales, and paintings reveal how French writers reinvented Persia to suit their own notions. French translations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were often more like adaptations with many fabricated elements rather than strict translations. Works by André du Ryer and François Pétis de la Croix, for example, could suggest a civil, polite, and courteous yet magical Persia. Charles Le Brun’s painting “The Queens of Persia at the Feet of Alexander” presented Persia as a complement to the ideal princely virtues that Louis XIV wished to project. The painting and tales established Persia as a match for French polite conduct, refinement, and royal behavior.Less
Translations of Persian texts, fairy tales, and paintings reveal how French writers reinvented Persia to suit their own notions. French translations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were often more like adaptations with many fabricated elements rather than strict translations. Works by André du Ryer and François Pétis de la Croix, for example, could suggest a civil, polite, and courteous yet magical Persia. Charles Le Brun’s painting “The Queens of Persia at the Feet of Alexander” presented Persia as a complement to the ideal princely virtues that Louis XIV wished to project. The painting and tales established Persia as a match for French polite conduct, refinement, and royal behavior.
Stanley Finger
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190464622
- eISBN:
- 9780190464646
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190464622.003.0003
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Gall considered his new science a part of physiognomy, the idea that physical features are revealing of character. This idea, accepted by Hippocrates and promoted by the Aristotelians, can also be ...
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Gall considered his new science a part of physiognomy, the idea that physical features are revealing of character. This idea, accepted by Hippocrates and promoted by the Aristotelians, can also be found in Galen’s influential writings from the second century AD, as well as in later books with pictures of men having features like cows and lions and personalities to match. Lavater’s well-illustrated physiognomy books from the 1770s were still very popular when Gall developed his doctrine. But unlike his predecessors, who he depreciated, Gall focused entirely on the head, and related cranial features to distinct higher brain parts, which he associated with different functions. In brief, his physiognomy, with its emphasis on the brain and its functions, represented a major break with past formulations and was presented as revolutionary.Less
Gall considered his new science a part of physiognomy, the idea that physical features are revealing of character. This idea, accepted by Hippocrates and promoted by the Aristotelians, can also be found in Galen’s influential writings from the second century AD, as well as in later books with pictures of men having features like cows and lions and personalities to match. Lavater’s well-illustrated physiognomy books from the 1770s were still very popular when Gall developed his doctrine. But unlike his predecessors, who he depreciated, Gall focused entirely on the head, and related cranial features to distinct higher brain parts, which he associated with different functions. In brief, his physiognomy, with its emphasis on the brain and its functions, represented a major break with past formulations and was presented as revolutionary.
Susan Mokhberi
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- November 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190884796
- eISBN:
- 9780190884826
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190884796.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History, Middle East History
The Persian Mirror explores France’s preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats, and even ordinary Parisians were ...
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The Persian Mirror explores France’s preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats, and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador’s visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction, and printed and painted images, The Persian Mirror describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of Orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.Less
The Persian Mirror explores France’s preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats, and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador’s visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction, and printed and painted images, The Persian Mirror describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of Orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.
