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  • Women and Irony in Molière's Comedies of Marriage

    by Prof John D. Lyons ...
    This is a book about how Molière, France's most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship. Though justly celebrated for his mastery of physical comedy and farce, one of Molière's key moves was to pay attention to the way women could use language. Seventeenth-century France was a time when speaking well became exceptionally ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to French Literature

    Edited by John D. Lyons ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today's multi-ethnic France. The French have, over the centuries, invented and reinvented writing, from the Arthurian romances ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Learned Un Happiness

    by John D Lyons ...
    In this short but succinct book, the Author explains the profound but simple way to achieve happiness and what he now enjoys “invincibility”. There have been many self-help books written and published, however many cover the same old topics like motivation, gratitude etc, and sadly many are only just quick fixes. What you will learn in this book is how we all have learned to practise the art of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • French Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John D. Lyons ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers of French, and also to a global audience reached through translations and film adaptations. The first great works of this repertory were written in the twelfth century in northern France, and now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, include ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque

    by John D. Lyons ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Few periods in history are so fundamentally contradictory as the Baroque, the culture flourishing from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries in Europe. When we hear the term âBaroque,â the first images that come to mind are symmetrically designed gardens in French chateaux, scenic fountains in Italian squares, and the vibrant rhythms of a harpsichord. Behind this commitment to rule, ... Read more

    $165.59 USD

  • The Dark Thread

    From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales

    by John D. Lyons, Hervé-Thomas Campangne, David LaGuardia, Timothy Chesters, Kathleen Long, Marina S. Brownlee, Maria Tausiet, Michael Meere, Caroline Warman, Guy Spielmann0, Philippe Roger1, Alison Booth2, Jennifer Tsien3, Jocelyn Moore4 ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the connections between works from early modernity and subsequent texts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, in which incidents such as ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • French Renaissance and Baroque Drama

    Text, Performance, Theory

    by Sara Beam, Christian Biet, Alison Calhoun, Fabien Cavaillé, Sybile Chevallier-Micki, Caroline Gates, Elizabeth Guild, Richard Hillman, John D. Lyons, Andreea Marculescu, Corinne Noirot, Stephanie O’Hara, Antónia Szabari, Phillip Usher, Ellen Welch ...
    The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies, pastoral, and mystery plays) to court ballets, royal entrances, and meta- and para-theatrical ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France

    by John D. Lyons ...
    In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. In France, a major terrain of this intellectual debate, the chance hypothesis engaged writers coming from many different horizons: the ancient philosophies of Epicurus, the Stoa, and Aristotle, the renewed ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715

    Seditious Frivolity

    by Allison Stedman ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, '80s, and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne

    Edited by Philippe Desan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In 1580, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) published a book unique by its title and its content: Essays"R. A literary genre was born. At first sight, the Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections, but they engage with questions that animate the human mind, and tend toward a single goal: to live better in the present and to prepare for death. For this reason, Montaigne's thought and ... Read more

    $133.19 USD

  • The Style of the State in French Theater, 1630–1660

    Neoclassicism and Government

    by Katherine Ibbett ...
    Engaging with recent thinking about performance, political theory and canon formation, this study addresses the significance of the formal changes in seventeenth-century French theater. Each chapter takes up a particularity of seventeenth-century theatrical style and staging”for example, the clearing of violence from the stage”and shows how the conceptualization of these French stylistic shifts ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy

    by Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    The first book-length study devoted to this topic, Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy offers an important contribution to scholarship on the theatre as well as on early modern attitudes in France, specifically on the subject of lying and deception. Unusually for a scholarly work on seventeenth-century theatre, it is particularly alert to plays as performed ... Read more

    $61.99 USD