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Moliere's Strategies - Timely Reflections on his Art of Comedy (Paperback, New edition): Walter E. Rex Moliere's Strategies - Timely Reflections on his Art of Comedy (Paperback, New edition)
Walter E. Rex
R1,748 Discovery Miles 17 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Of all the playwrights from the age of Louis XIV, only Moliere's work is still regularly performed in France and beyond. This book analyses certain elements of the plays that may explain Moliere's longevity: a plausible chain of events peppered with shocks and surprises; tensions between opposites; intellectual concerns that had not previously been the province of comedy; and plots founded on situations that are anything but comic. These hallmarks added up to an intense type of comic theatre, meaningful in ways that gave the genre a new dimension. The author of this study does not treat Moliere's plays as variations on a single prototype, but brings a fresh approach to each. The book's witty, learned and penetrating readings examine critical issues such as the ambiguous anti-feminism of Les Femmes savantes, Moliere's revisions of the myth of Don Juan, 'conversion' as the theological starting point of Le Tartuffe, contrariety as the basis of comedies such as George Dandin and Le Misanthrope, and coded satire in the comedie-ballets. Each play is revealed to have a seamless comic design, while at the same time speaking to the wider world. Moliere's works are shown to be entirely and immediately involved in human society, in the social dimension of the human condition.

The Attraction of the Contrary - Essays on the Literature of the French Enlightenment (Paperback): Walter E. Rex The Attraction of the Contrary - Essays on the Literature of the French Enlightenment (Paperback)
Walter E. Rex
R943 Discovery Miles 9 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The essays in this 1987 volume are concerned with ideas of contrarity and other kinds of polar opposition in French literature of the eighteenth century. Originally these ideas were merely part of an impulse to undermine the establishment, but as the century progressed the desire to invert social values and question accepted norms merged with the main groundswell of the age to form part of the movement of Revolution. Professor Rex considers some of the major writers of the period: Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Beaumarchais. He also explores minor genres such as operas comiques, theatrical parodies, and erotic or pornographic pieces; these have been largely forgotten, but in their time they imbued the creative life of the era with vitality. In treating the literature in relation to the other arts, especially painting and music, these essays will be of interest to scholars of all aspects of eighteenth-century French culture.

Inventory of Diderot's 'Encyclopedie' 1971 (Hardcover): Richard N. Schwab, Walter E. Rex, John Lough Inventory of Diderot's 'Encyclopedie' 1971 (Hardcover)
Richard N. Schwab, Walter E. Rex, John Lough
R3,887 Discovery Miles 38 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.

Preliminary Discourse To The Encyclopedia Of Diderot - The Library Of Liberal Arts (Paperback): Jean Le Rond d' Alembert Preliminary Discourse To The Encyclopedia Of Diderot - The Library Of Liberal Arts (Paperback)
Jean Le Rond d' Alembert; Translated by Richard N. Schwab; Contributions by Walter E. Rex
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Preliminary Discourse To The Encyclopedia Of Diderot - The Library Of Liberal Arts (Hardcover): Jean Le Rond d' Alembert Preliminary Discourse To The Encyclopedia Of Diderot - The Library Of Liberal Arts (Hardcover)
Jean Le Rond d' Alembert; Translated by Richard N. Schwab; Contributions by Walter E. Rex
R1,070 Discovery Miles 10 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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