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French essays --- French prose literature --- Aphorisms and apothegms --- Maxims, French --- History and criticism --- French essays - History and criticism --- French prose literature - 17th century - History and criticism --- Aphorisms and apothegms - History and criticism --- Maxims, French - History and criticism

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Challenging the view of epistolary narrative as a faulty precursor to the nineteenth-century realist novel, Elizabeth MacArthur argues that the openness and flexibility that characterize correspondences, both real and fictional, reflect the preoccupations of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her readings of the Lettres portugaises, Mme du Deffand's correspondence with Horace Walpole, and Rousseau's La Nouvelle Hlose propose an alternative to closure-oriented theories of narrative as they uncover an interplay between two forces: a tendency towards closure and meaning (metaphor) and a tendency towards openness and desire (metonymy). While such an interplay structures all narrative, the epistolary form differs from the third or first person in the extent to which metonymy predominates. The author shows how critics and editors of correspondences have attempted to control their metonymy, channeling epistolary energy into univocal meaning. By juxtaposing real and fictional epistolary works, MacArthur reveals the similarities between the two, particularly their "extravagance": ambiguity, openness, and forward-moving energy.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Epistolary fiction, French --- French prose literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Closure (Rhetoric) --- Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- French Literature --- French literature --- French epistolary fiction --- French fiction --- Endings (Rhetoric) --- Last lines (Rhetoric) --- Peroration --- Rhetoric --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism --- 840-6 --- 840-6 Franse literatuur: brief --- Franse literatuur: brief --- Closure (Rhetoric). --- Epistolary fiction, French -- History and criticism. --- French prose literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism. --- French prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- History and criticism.

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Sans prétendre à l’exhaustivité, cette étude se propose de retracer l’histoire littéraire du livre de piété en prose dans le milieu réformé européen francophone, des origines de la Réforme jusqu’à la révocation de l’Edit de Nantes, en accordant une place de choix à la méditation, qui domine la production de ces ouvrages. Il s’agit de replacer les expressions de la dévotion dans leur contexte socio-historique, en lien avec l’histoire singulière d’une communauté de croyants. La littérature de piété n’est pas strictement spirituelle, elle est aussi existentielle et résolument militante. Opter pour la Réforme dès son origine, c’est entrer de plain-pied sur la scène de l’Histoire : prendre position dans la cité, s’exposer à payer le prix de ses croyances et de sa manière particulière d’aimer Dieu. Ce n’est pas seulement à l’aune de critères esthétiques que sera interrogé le concept d’identité confessionnelle appliqué à la littérature, mais aussi sous l’angle de l’histoire politique, religieuse, sociale et littéraire. Après un premier regard portant sur les origines du livre réformé tel qu’il s’affirme à partir des années 1550, l’ouvrage s’attache à dégager une typologie des pratiques de dévotion : la préparation à la mort, la méditation pénitentielle, la méditation sur les Psaumes, la préparation à la cène et les recueils méthodiques. Les derniers chapitres proposent, quant à eux, des synthèses sur les problématiques soulevées par le livre de piété : le militantisme dévotionnel, le langage de la piété, l’auctorialité, enfin le lectorat. Au fil de ce parcours, il s’agit de montrer le rôle primordial que joue le livre de piété dans la vulgarisation des pratiques et des savoirs religieux comme dans la constitution d’une langue littéraire repensée à partir de nouveaux critères rhétoriques.

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Travel narratives were the principal source of knowledge about the lands of the Near East and the Indian Ocean Basin in 17th-century France. Claiming the authority of first-hand observation, they paradoxically rely for their legitimization on the tropes of an established literary tradition. The status of these texts remained ambiguous, not least because of their anecdotal depictions of great riches, brutality or sexual promise. Drawing on the insights of post-colonial scholarship, this study tackles a question given scant attention in previous work and suggests that beyond the hazy representation of the Orient, an opposition emerges between the threatening Near East and the indolent East Indies. Distinguishing recognizable representations from those generated by new encounters, this book questions the feasibility of cultural representation through travel, exploring a large corpus of original sources written by French ecclesiastics, gentlemen-travellers, ambassadors and adventurers. Linguistic, religious, cultural or geographical barriers meant most travellers remained distanced from the peoples about whom they would simultaneously become authoritative. The encounter was further transformed in narratives that were intended to entertain and to satisfy the criterion of curiosité . The ‘Oriental’ that emerges is a supremely variable entity, alternately naked or veiled, barbaric or civilized, menacing or attractive.

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