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What can we know about the understanding of time in a particular cultural or historical setting, and what can this knowledge tell us about how we think about time today? Time and Ways of Knowing: Moliere, Sevigne, Lafayette raises these questions by examining the scientific measurement and perception of time in seventeenth-century Europe and particularly in France. This widely researched book argues that the technological and social changes relating to time have a paradoxical impact in seventeenth-century France; they lead to more control of the individual, thus intruding upon the realm of the private, and at the same time encourage the development of a newfound sense of privacy and subjectivity, partly in reaction to the increasing control of the individual by the state. This Foucaludian hypothesis is compellingly developed through a number of critical readings in historical contexts: the social framework of court life under Louis XIV is made to shed light on Moliere's theatrical time; an analysis of early modern French postal reform reveals that concertedly diurnal nature of Mme de Sevigne's letters; and the consideration of early French periodicals evoks readers' reactions to Mme de Lafayette's La Princesse de Cleves, a novel whose discourses proposed a new kind of narrative time. A conclusion connects early modern historical questions of human temporality to present-day environmental conerns. Time and Ways of Knowing is an original, interdisciplinary study that will appeal to scholars of seventeenth-century French literature and culture, and of the philosophy of science, as wlel as to those interested in narrative, temporality, and questions of disciplinary.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary reference works

• Pełny tytuł: Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV
• Podtytuł: Moliere, Sevigne, Lafayette
• Autor: Roland Racevskis
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 220
• EAN: 9781611481655
• ISBN: 1611481651
• ID: 05091935
• Wydawca: Bucknell University Press
• Waga: 517 g
• Wymiary: 244 × 168 × 18 mm
• Data wydania: 01. March 2003

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