Author: Stone, Harriet
Title: The Classical Model: Literature and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century France
Description: Ithaca, NY. Cornell University Press, 1996. Hardcover. No dustjacket. 234pp.In this book I situate literature as an equal partner in the search for knowledge that developed in seventeenth-century France under the watchful eye of the absolutist court. I take literature's capacity to order a view of the world, detecting in the vision of things offered by writers of fiction a key to understanding how meaning is fashioned. In the crafting of literature's forms, in the display of its art, there exists a legitimate science. This is not the science of discovery but the science of representing what is known. Thus by science I am referring to the scienta of the classical period, the paradigms that order knowledge. Chapters on: Frame Theory: Foucault, Rotrou and Corneille; Perspectives on Knowledge: Andromaque and Berenice; The Play is the Thing: The Inscrutable Subjects of Moliere, Descartes and La Rochefoucauld; The Retracted Gaze: Zaide and La Princesse de Cleves...text. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780801432125.

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