Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France

Klappentext This book analyses the use of the crucial concept of 'taste' in the works of five major seventeenth-century French authors. Zusammenfassung This book analyses the use of the crucial concept of 'taste' in the works of five major seventeenth-century French authors, Méré, Saint Evremond, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère and Boileau. It combines close readings of important texts with a thoroughgoing political analysis of seventeenth-century French society in terms of class and gender. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. 'Taste' and history; 2. Defining göt: the dictionaries; 3. Méré: taste and the ideology of honn¿teté; 4. Saint Evremond: taste and cultural hegemony; 5. La Rochefoucauld: tastes and their vicissitudes; 6. La Bruyère: taste-discourse and the absent subject; 7. Boileau: taste and the institution of 'literature'; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Moriarty
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521113366
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11336-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies