Jack Zipes
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691153384
- eISBN:
- 9781400841820
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691153384.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter focuses on the significance of Madame Catherine-Anne d'Aulnoy and the French writers of fairy tales in the 1690s. d'Aulnoy coined the term “fairy tale” in 1697, when she published her ...
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This chapter focuses on the significance of Madame Catherine-Anne d'Aulnoy and the French writers of fairy tales in the 1690s. d'Aulnoy coined the term “fairy tale” in 1697, when she published her first collection of tales. But it was not until 1750 that the term “fairy tale” came into common English usage. The chapter explores the historical importance of the term “fairy tale” in greater depth by discussing the role of the fairies in d'Aulnoy's works. It also looks at how fairies were part of a long oral and literary tradition in French culture, and how d'Aulnoy's employment of fairies in her tales owes a debt to Greek and Roman myths, the opera, theatrical spectacles, debates about the role of women in French society, and French folklore.Less
This chapter focuses on the significance of Madame Catherine-Anne d'Aulnoy and the French writers of fairy tales in the 1690s. d'Aulnoy coined the term “fairy tale” in 1697, when she published her first collection of tales. But it was not until 1750 that the term “fairy tale” came into common English usage. The chapter explores the historical importance of the term “fairy tale” in greater depth by discussing the role of the fairies in d'Aulnoy's works. It also looks at how fairies were part of a long oral and literary tradition in French culture, and how d'Aulnoy's employment of fairies in her tales owes a debt to Greek and Roman myths, the opera, theatrical spectacles, debates about the role of women in French society, and French folklore.
ANNA RICHARDS
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199267545
- eISBN:
- 9780191708398
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267545.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
This chapter examines the new views about women which were put forward at this period by German medical writers and the French writers who influenced them, and they compare them with those which were ...
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This chapter examines the new views about women which were put forward at this period by German medical writers and the French writers who influenced them, and they compare them with those which were held a hundred years later, around 1900. It then focuses on discussions of female eating behaviour and wasting diseases in particular. In the context of the moral and philosophical views with which perceptions of the female body were inextricably bound up, it examines whether women's illness could sometimes have constituted a protest against gender stereotypes, as feminist critics have suggested.Less
This chapter examines the new views about women which were put forward at this period by German medical writers and the French writers who influenced them, and they compare them with those which were held a hundred years later, around 1900. It then focuses on discussions of female eating behaviour and wasting diseases in particular. In the context of the moral and philosophical views with which perceptions of the female body were inextricably bound up, it examines whether women's illness could sometimes have constituted a protest against gender stereotypes, as feminist critics have suggested.
Michael Hawcroft
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198159841
- eISBN:
- 9780191673726
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159841.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter discusses and encourages familiarity with rhetorical theory, and even provides a familiar account of this theory. The chapter also serves as a point of reference for the rest of the ...
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This chapter discusses and encourages familiarity with rhetorical theory, and even provides a familiar account of this theory. The chapter also serves as a point of reference for the rest of the book, as it illustrates many of the technical terms from French writers of different periods.Less
This chapter discusses and encourages familiarity with rhetorical theory, and even provides a familiar account of this theory. The chapter also serves as a point of reference for the rest of the book, as it illustrates many of the technical terms from French writers of different periods.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846314995
- eISBN:
- 9781846316500
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846316500.002
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Taking as a point of departure the notion that critical appreciation of writers in the French–speaking Caribbean is connected to a given author's theoretical training in France, this introductory ...
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Taking as a point of departure the notion that critical appreciation of writers in the French–speaking Caribbean is connected to a given author's theoretical training in France, this introductory chapter examines what happens to writers — like Frankétienne, Fignolé, and Philoctète — who choose or are obliged to remain physically anchored in the space of their island. What are the consequences for those who refuse the voyage to Paris along with certain of the theory–centric underpinnings of literature this voyage implies? Further, in what ways might franco–theory–centric approaches be deployed in analyzing New World literature in French without abstracting or de–specifying regional or local traditions?Less
Taking as a point of departure the notion that critical appreciation of writers in the French–speaking Caribbean is connected to a given author's theoretical training in France, this introductory chapter examines what happens to writers — like Frankétienne, Fignolé, and Philoctète — who choose or are obliged to remain physically anchored in the space of their island. What are the consequences for those who refuse the voyage to Paris along with certain of the theory–centric underpinnings of literature this voyage implies? Further, in what ways might franco–theory–centric approaches be deployed in analyzing New World literature in French without abstracting or de–specifying regional or local traditions?
Terence Cave
- Published in print:
- 1985
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198158356
- eISBN:
- 9780191673290
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198158356.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
In the 16th century, Latin theorists and French vernacular writers shared a common preoccupation with problems of writing, its nature, and status. The focus of this book is the interaction of ...
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In the 16th century, Latin theorists and French vernacular writers shared a common preoccupation with problems of writing, its nature, and status. The focus of this book is the interaction of Erasmian theory and the literary practice of Rabelais, Ronsard, and Montaigne: writers who examined problems of writing sometimes literally and explicitly, but also through a group of figures — sexual, alimentary, economic — of which the central emblem is the cornucopia.Less
In the 16th century, Latin theorists and French vernacular writers shared a common preoccupation with problems of writing, its nature, and status. The focus of this book is the interaction of Erasmian theory and the literary practice of Rabelais, Ronsard, and Montaigne: writers who examined problems of writing sometimes literally and explicitly, but also through a group of figures — sexual, alimentary, economic — of which the central emblem is the cornucopia.
Tony James
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198151883
- eISBN:
- 9780191672873
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151883.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature, European Literature
This is an important new analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness as perceived by 19th-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. Those wishing to know the nature of ...
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This is an important new analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness as perceived by 19th-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. Those wishing to know the nature of madness, wrote Voltaire, should observe their dreams. The relationship between the dream-state and madness is a key theme of 19th-century European, and specifically French, thought. The meaning of dreams and associated phenomena such as somnambulism, ecstasy, and hallucinations (including those induced by hashish) preoccupied writers, philosophers, and psychiatrists. This book shows how doctors (such as Esquirol, Lélut, and Janet), thinkers (including Maine de Biran and Taine), and writers (for example, Balzac, Nerval, Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, and Rimbaud) grappled in very different ways with the problems raised by the so-called ‘phenomena of sleep’. Were historical figures such as Socrates or Pascal in fact mad? Might dreaming be a source of creativity, rather than a merely subsidiary, ‘automatic’ function? What of lucid dreaming? By exploring these questions, this book makes good a considerable gap in the history of pre-Freudian psychology.Less
This is an important new analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness as perceived by 19th-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. Those wishing to know the nature of madness, wrote Voltaire, should observe their dreams. The relationship between the dream-state and madness is a key theme of 19th-century European, and specifically French, thought. The meaning of dreams and associated phenomena such as somnambulism, ecstasy, and hallucinations (including those induced by hashish) preoccupied writers, philosophers, and psychiatrists. This book shows how doctors (such as Esquirol, Lélut, and Janet), thinkers (including Maine de Biran and Taine), and writers (for example, Balzac, Nerval, Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, and Rimbaud) grappled in very different ways with the problems raised by the so-called ‘phenomena of sleep’. Were historical figures such as Socrates or Pascal in fact mad? Might dreaming be a source of creativity, rather than a merely subsidiary, ‘automatic’ function? What of lucid dreaming? By exploring these questions, this book makes good a considerable gap in the history of pre-Freudian psychology.
Cave Terence
- Published in print:
- 1985
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198158356
- eISBN:
- 9780191673290
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198158356.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter examines the cornucopian text problems in the works of several French Renaissance writers including Francois Rabelais, Pierre de Ronsard, and Michel de Montaigne. It explores the corpus ...
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This chapter examines the cornucopian text problems in the works of several French Renaissance writers including Francois Rabelais, Pierre de Ronsard, and Michel de Montaigne. It explores the corpus in the works of these writers to determine how problems of writing occur in practice. It suggests that while Rabelais and Ronsard allowed theoretical issues to emerge from writing in action, Montaigne provides a context in which theory and practice are in a more explicit and continuous relationship with one another.Less
This chapter examines the cornucopian text problems in the works of several French Renaissance writers including Francois Rabelais, Pierre de Ronsard, and Michel de Montaigne. It explores the corpus in the works of these writers to determine how problems of writing occur in practice. It suggests that while Rabelais and Ronsard allowed theoretical issues to emerge from writing in action, Montaigne provides a context in which theory and practice are in a more explicit and continuous relationship with one another.
Brian Sudlow
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719083112
- eISBN:
- 9781781703137
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719083112.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter provides a useful paradigm to analyse anti-secular alternatives. It outlines ways in which French and English Catholic writers seek to reimagine society and economics on a sacred basis. ...
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This chapter provides a useful paradigm to analyse anti-secular alternatives. It outlines ways in which French and English Catholic writers seek to reimagine society and economics on a sacred basis. Cavanaugh's Eucharistic counter-politics has helped to draw out some of the governing dynamics at work in their writings. In spite of the religious shape of cultural and historic roots, the passionate neo-monarchism of the French Catholic writers—monarchism shaped more by Maurrassian influence than anything else—apes Republican State idealism, with its absolute confidence in monarchy as a panacea. The roots of such confidence arguably go back to the direction taken by the French monarchy under the influence of the divine right of kings, a paradoxically secular model—because conflating religion and politics and subjecting the former to the latter—in religious clothing.Less
This chapter provides a useful paradigm to analyse anti-secular alternatives. It outlines ways in which French and English Catholic writers seek to reimagine society and economics on a sacred basis. Cavanaugh's Eucharistic counter-politics has helped to draw out some of the governing dynamics at work in their writings. In spite of the religious shape of cultural and historic roots, the passionate neo-monarchism of the French Catholic writers—monarchism shaped more by Maurrassian influence than anything else—apes Republican State idealism, with its absolute confidence in monarchy as a panacea. The roots of such confidence arguably go back to the direction taken by the French monarchy under the influence of the divine right of kings, a paradoxically secular model—because conflating religion and politics and subjecting the former to the latter—in religious clothing.
Brian Sudlow
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719083112
- eISBN:
- 9781781703137
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719083112.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Cavanaugh's analysis of the secular State indicates the role individualism played in the genesis of contractual political theories. The gathering into the Church envisaged by many French and English ...
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Cavanaugh's analysis of the secular State indicates the role individualism played in the genesis of contractual political theories. The gathering into the Church envisaged by many French and English Catholic authors sometimes adopts supernatural or enchanted dimensions, especially through their depiction of prophecy, the miraculous and the mysterious sharing of grace between members of the Church. This chapter discusses the themes as they appear in the works of French and English Catholic writers. It encounters their view of the Church as an institution whose very dynamics illustrate their belief in the divine agency continually at work in the material cosmos. Miracles and prophecy, the fruit of some special gift or intervention of God, help enact the Church not hierarchically but charismatically. Vicarious suffering and sainthood provide an ecclesial context for those gifts and, at the same time, portrays most dramatically the unity that can be achieved between individuals.Less
Cavanaugh's analysis of the secular State indicates the role individualism played in the genesis of contractual political theories. The gathering into the Church envisaged by many French and English Catholic authors sometimes adopts supernatural or enchanted dimensions, especially through their depiction of prophecy, the miraculous and the mysterious sharing of grace between members of the Church. This chapter discusses the themes as they appear in the works of French and English Catholic writers. It encounters their view of the Church as an institution whose very dynamics illustrate their belief in the divine agency continually at work in the material cosmos. Miracles and prophecy, the fruit of some special gift or intervention of God, help enact the Church not hierarchically but charismatically. Vicarious suffering and sainthood provide an ecclesial context for those gifts and, at the same time, portrays most dramatically the unity that can be achieved between individuals.
Simone de Beauvoir
Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252036347
- eISBN:
- 9780252097195
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252036347.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
This book brings to English-language readers literary writings—several previously unknown—by the author. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades ...
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This book brings to English-language readers literary writings—several previously unknown—by the author. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades of the author’s career. Ranging from dramatic works and literary theory to radio broadcasts, they collectively reveal fresh insights into the author’s writing process, personal life, and the honing of her philosophy. Highlights of the volume include a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, the unpublished 1965 short novel “Misunderstanding in Moscow,” the fragmentary “Notes for a Novel,” and an eagerly awaited translation of the author’s contribution to a 1965 debate among Jean-Paul Sartre and other French writers and intellectuals, “What Can Literature Do?” ALso available in English for the first time are prefaces to well-known works such as Bluebeard and Other Fairy Tales, La Bâtarde, and James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years, alongside essays and other short articles. A landmark contribution to Beauvoir studies and French literary studies, the volume includes informative and engaging introductory essays by prominent and rising scholars.Less
This book brings to English-language readers literary writings—several previously unknown—by the author. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades of the author’s career. Ranging from dramatic works and literary theory to radio broadcasts, they collectively reveal fresh insights into the author’s writing process, personal life, and the honing of her philosophy. Highlights of the volume include a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, the unpublished 1965 short novel “Misunderstanding in Moscow,” the fragmentary “Notes for a Novel,” and an eagerly awaited translation of the author’s contribution to a 1965 debate among Jean-Paul Sartre and other French writers and intellectuals, “What Can Literature Do?” ALso available in English for the first time are prefaces to well-known works such as Bluebeard and Other Fairy Tales, La Bâtarde, and James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years, alongside essays and other short articles. A landmark contribution to Beauvoir studies and French literary studies, the volume includes informative and engaging introductory essays by prominent and rising scholars.
Joel Porte
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300104462
- eISBN:
- 9780300130577
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300104462.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature
This chapter examines Ralph Waldo Emerson's relation to French writers and French culture generally. It analyzes how Emerson regarded Catholicism, which was the root and ground of French culture as ...
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This chapter examines Ralph Waldo Emerson's relation to French writers and French culture generally. It analyzes how Emerson regarded Catholicism, which was the root and ground of French culture as he understood it, and discusses his involvement in the work of cultural “translation.” It also explains that European ideas were catalytic in Emerson's formation and that France was an important part of the equation.Less
This chapter examines Ralph Waldo Emerson's relation to French writers and French culture generally. It analyzes how Emerson regarded Catholicism, which was the root and ground of French culture as he understood it, and discusses his involvement in the work of cultural “translation.” It also explains that European ideas were catalytic in Emerson's formation and that France was an important part of the equation.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846317545
- eISBN:
- 9781846317217
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317217.010
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter presents concluding remarks regarding the future spaces. It concentrates on French writer–thinkers who have addressed the mutations of the concept of space from the 1960s to the present. ...
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This chapter presents concluding remarks regarding the future spaces. It concentrates on French writer–thinkers who have addressed the mutations of the concept of space from the 1960s to the present. The lines of thinking about ecological spaces that these theorists follow often tend to arise out of a background of physical and historical geography that considers dilemmas in the area of geopolitics and ecology. This chapter suggests the need for the translation, negotiation and collaboration to construct future spaces.Less
This chapter presents concluding remarks regarding the future spaces. It concentrates on French writer–thinkers who have addressed the mutations of the concept of space from the 1960s to the present. The lines of thinking about ecological spaces that these theorists follow often tend to arise out of a background of physical and historical geography that considers dilemmas in the area of geopolitics and ecology. This chapter suggests the need for the translation, negotiation and collaboration to construct future spaces.
