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Classics Incorporated
Elise Noël McMahon
其他書名
Cultural Studies and Seventeenth-century French Literature
出版Summa Publications, Inc., 1998
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / FrenchSocial Science / Popular Culture
ISBN18834792159781883479213
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HCKg8KVARGEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In this work Professor McMahon takes a new approach to interpreting the most canonized century in French literature. By viewing literature as essentially a cultural practice, she offers an unconventional reading of canonical masterpieces of the era (Corneille's Medee, Moliere's La Bourgeois gentilhomme, Racine's Phedre, and La Fontaine's Fables) to the extent that these works are compared to "non-literary" texts which focus on the human body. "Classics Incorporated" draws on extensive archival research into such unfamiliar historical sources as cookbooks, shopping guides, treatises on medicine and monstrosity, and dance manuals. Because of this insistence on treating literature as part of a given culture and historicising texts in a novel manner, "Classics Incorporated" stands apart as a critical study that can appeal to a diverse audience: those who are interested in cultural criticism, popular culture, cultural history, and critical theory alike.