Author: Stone, Harriet
Title: The Classical Model: Literature and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Crentury France
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1996). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xviii,234 pp. Minor rubbing. A small label to rear cover. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Modelling a Classical Disourse; Frame Theory: Foucault, Rotrou, & Corneille; Perspectives on Knowledge: Andromaque and Bérénice; The Play Is The Thing: The Inscrutable Subjects of Molière, Descartes & La Rochefoucauld; The Refracted Gaze: Zaïde & La Princesse de Clèves; The Art of Naming: The Taxonomies of Descartes, Furetière & Pascal;Conclusion: Final Perspectives.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, French Literature, Seventeenth Century, Pierre Corneille, La Rochefoucauld, Moliere, , ,