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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501738982
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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
Summary: 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 Rochefoucauld, and Lafayette, as well as by Descartes, Fureti're, and Pascal.
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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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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 Rochefoucauld, and Lafayette, as well as by Descartes, Fureti're, and Pascal.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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