By exploring the Baroque in relation to these larger social upheavals, this Handbook reveals a fresh and surprisingly modern image of the Baroque as a powerful response to an epoch of crisis.
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A study of the practice of vivid, self-directed imagination in the optimistic spirit of the early-modern French writers.
"This reassessment of French classical ideas about tragedy will be valuable to students and scholars of French literature, drama, and cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.
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.
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Provides a new account of the crucial shift from the classical and medieval conception of Fortune to the modern notion of chance or randomness.