The Classical Model : : Literature and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century France /

The Classical Model : : Literature and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century France / / Harriet Stone.

Stone identifies not only the momentous achievement of the discovery of the scientific method but also the more subtle process of experimentation in literature through which ideas were continually tested and redefined. She offers close readings of works by Rotrou, Corneille, Racine, Moli're, La...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Stone, Harriet,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1996
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Modeling a Classical Discourse
  • 1. Frame Theory: Foucault, Rotrou, and Corneille
  • 2. Perspectives on Knowledge: Andromaque and Berenice
  • 3. The Play Is the Thing: The Inscrutable Subjects of Moliere, Descartes, and La Rochefoucauld
  • 4. The Refracted Gaze: Zaide and La Princesse de Cleves
  • 5. The Art of Naming: The Taxonomies of Descartes, Furetiere, and Pascal
  • Conclusion: Final Perspectives
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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