Politeness and Its Discontents: Problems in French Classical CultureCambridge University Press, 09.01.1992 - 245 Seiten This is a 1992 study of writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, mainly in France, but also in Britain and Russia. Its focus is on the establishing and questioning of rational, 'civilized' norms of 'politeness', which in the ancien régime meant not just polite manners, but a certain ideal of society and culture. |
Inhalt
Acknowledgements page x | 1 |
Hyperbole | 11 |
Ogres | 27 |
Racines Phèdre | 40 |
Polish police polis | 53 |
Addison and Marivaux | 74 |
The commerce of the self | 97 |
The writer as performer | 113 |
Beyond politeness? Speakers and audience at | 129 |
Translating the British | 151 |
Jacques or his master? Diderot and the peasants | 173 |
Enlightened primitivism | 187 |
Frontiers of civilization | 204 |
Notes | 219 |
238 | |
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Politeness and Its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture Peter France,Emeritus Professor of French Peter France Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1992 |
Politeness and Its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture Peter France Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2006 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam Ferguson Adam Smith Addison ancien régime ancient assemblies audience autres barbarous bien Bigre Bouhours c'est Chapter civilized classical commerce commercial society contemporaries Contes Corsica critics culture d'une Diderot Discours eighteenth century eloquence Encyclopédie English Enlightenment esprit essay être example fait Ferguson figure français France French grand Helvétius hero Highlands homme honnête human hyperbole instance j'ai Jacques jamais Jean-François Marmontel Jean-Jacques Rousseau l'esprit l'homme language Lettres literary literature Marivaux Marmontel Mercure galant modern mœurs monde moral myth n'est nature Norbert Elias novel Œuvres ogre Ossian Paris peasant pensée perhaps Perrault peuple peut Phèdre philosophe play poem poetry polished polite society politesse Pope's popular praise primitive primitivism prose qu'il qu'on Racine Racine's Rameau readers Resnel rhetoric rien Rousseau salon savage says Scotland Scottish Enlightenment seems siècle social speaking spectateur Spectator speech story theatre tout tragedy translation Trublet virtue Voltaire words writing
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