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In The Shape of Change, Anne L. Birberick and Russell Ganim bring together essays by fourteen established scholars who dedicate their studies to David Rubin as they explore the ways in which artistic endeavor shapes and is shaped by literary memory. The volume is divided into two sections. The first section, "Continuity and Discontinuity," offers essays by Jody Enders, Timothy Reiss, Twyla Meding, Marie-Odile Sweetser, Robert Corum, Jr., and the editors themselves and considers the ways in which seventeenth-century authors draw upon generic conventions or diverse artistic media to create works that reflect the aesthetic and moral values of their time. The second section, entitled "La Fontain...
Reprint of an internationally praised collection of essays by a team of cutting-edge La Fontaine scholars.
This collection of essays focuses on the concept of perfection in various domains during the 17th century in France.
Essays on French writers of the seventeenth-century, or Classical century. What best defines the literature of this period are political order and the growing awareness of literature as a separate domain in need of rules and regulations. Discusses the political turmoil during this period as well as the Reformation and the Counter Reformation encouraging research on ancient tests, methods of research, and the standardization of the French language.