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Approaches to teaching Lafayette's The Princess of Clèves / edited by Faith E. Beasley and Katharine Ann Jensen.
LIBRA PQ1805.L5 A737 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Approaches to teaching world literature ; 61.
- Approaches to teaching world literature ; 61
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne), 1634-1693. Princesse de Clèves.
- La Fayette.
- La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne), 1634-1693--Study and teaching.
- La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne), 1634-1693.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1998.
- Summary:
- Frequently identified in French literary histories as the first modern novel -- that is, the first to focus on its characters' thoughts and feelings instead of their heroic actions -- Lafayette's La Princesse de Cleves has provoked discussion and strong opinions since it was published in 1678. Today instructors use this increasingly popular novel not only in French literature courses but also in comparative literature courses, women's studies courses, and theme-oriented courses; but its unfamiliar historical setting can be daunting to contemporary classes. In the words of the editors, this collection aims to "give colleagues (...) a sense of seventeenth-century France and show how the novel is a product of this milieu, for these are the keys to making the novel comprehensible and indeed enjoyable to students."
- Contents:
- Introduction: La Princesse de Cleves and the History of the French Novel 1
- Part 1 Materials / Faith E. Beasley, Katharine Ann Jensen
- Editions
- French Editions 11
- English Translations 12
- The Instructor's Library 15
- Critical Studies 17
- Aids to Teaching 21
- Part 2 Approaches
- Mirroring Society: La Princesse de Cleves in Context
- Lafayette's First Readers: The Quarrel of La Princesse de Cleves / Elizabeth C. Goldsmith 30
- Jansenist Resonances in La Princesse de Cleves / Louis MacKenzie 38
- Court Society and Economies of Exchange / Harriet Stone 47
- Virtue and Civility in La Princesse de Cleves / Marie-Paule Laden 54
- Masculinity in La Princesse de Cleves / Lewis C. Seifert 60
- Making Sense of the Ending: Passion, Virtue, and Female Subjectivity / Katharine Ann Jensen 68
- Themes and Structures
- The Mother-Daughter Subtext in La Princesse de Cleves / Michele Longino 76
- Conflicting Emotions: Personal and Cultural Vraisemblance in La Princesse de Cleves / Inge Crosman Wimmers 85
- Getting Inside: Digression, Entanglement, and the Internal Narratives / Rae Beth Gordon 92
- Mapping La Princesse de Cleves: A Spatial Approach / Eva Posfay 102
- Seeing and Being Seen: Visual Codes and Metaphors in La Princesse de Cleves / Julia V. Douthwaite 109
- Truly Inimitable? Repetition in La Princesse de Cleves / Louise K. Horowitz 120
- Specific Teaching Contexts
- Teaching La Princesse de Cleves in Translation / Faith E. Beasley 127
- What's Love Got to Do with It? The Issue of Vulnerability in an Anthological Approach / James F. Gaines 139
- Romance and Novel in La Princesse de Cleves / Kathleen Wine 147
- Reading La Princesse de Cleves with the Heptameron / John D. Lyons 158
- Mediation of Desire in La Princesse de Cleves / Anne Callahan 165
- Teaching La Princesse de Cleves in a Women's Studies Course / Elizabeth J. MacArthur 175
- 1. The Quarrel over La Princesse de Cleves: Passages from Valincour, Lettres, and Charnes, Conversations 183
- 2. Undergraduate Study Guide 192
- Genealogy, La Princesse de Cleves 196
- Survey Participants 200.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0873527453
- 0873527461
- OCLC:
- 39368598
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