The Resource Politeness and its discontents : problems in French classical culture, Peter France, (electronic book)
Politeness and its discontents : problems in French classical culture, Peter France, (electronic book)
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- Summary
- This is a 1992 study of writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, mainly in France, but also in Britain and Russia. Its focus is on the establishing and questioning of rational, 'civilized' norms of 'politeness', which in the ancien régime meant not just polite manners, but a certain ideal of society and culture. Within this general context, a series of familiar oppositions, between polite and rude, tame and wild, urban(e) and rustic, élite and popular, adult and child, reason and unreason, gives the initial impetus to enquiries which often show how these opposites interpenetrate, how hierarchies are reversed, and how compromises are sought. Polite society, like polite literature, needs and desires its opposite. The ideal is often the meeting of garden and wilderness, where the savage encounters the civilized and gifts are exchanged. Professor France points to the centrality, but also the vulnerability, in classical culture, of the ideal of 'politeness', and his discussion embraces revolutionary eloquence and enlightened primitivism, the value of hyperbole, and the essay as a form of polite sociability
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Politeness and its discontents : problems in French classical culture
- Title
- Politeness and its discontents
- Title remainder
- problems in French classical culture
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter France
- Subject
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- European literature -- French influences
- France -- Civilization -- 18th century
- French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
- French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- French literature -- European influences
- Literature and society -- France
- Social ethics in literature
- Classicism -- France
- Courtesy in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This is a 1992 study of writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, mainly in France, but also in Britain and Russia. Its focus is on the establishing and questioning of rational, 'civilized' norms of 'politeness', which in the ancien régime meant not just polite manners, but a certain ideal of society and culture. Within this general context, a series of familiar oppositions, between polite and rude, tame and wild, urban(e) and rustic, élite and popular, adult and child, reason and unreason, gives the initial impetus to enquiries which often show how these opposites interpenetrate, how hierarchies are reversed, and how compromises are sought. Polite society, like polite literature, needs and desires its opposite. The ideal is often the meeting of garden and wilderness, where the savage encounters the civilized and gifts are exchanged. Professor France points to the centrality, but also the vulnerability, in classical culture, of the ideal of 'politeness', and his discussion embraces revolutionary eloquence and enlightened primitivism, the value of hyperbole, and the essay as a form of polite sociability
- Cataloging source
- UkCbUP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1935-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- France, Peter
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies in French
- Series volume
- 35
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- French literature
- French literature
- French literature
- European literature
- Literature and society
- Social ethics in literature
- Courtesy in literature
- Classicism
- France
- Label
- Politeness and its discontents : problems in French classical culture, Peter France, (electronic book)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- CR9780511551451
- Extent
- xii, 245 p.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9780521370707
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Type of computer file
- Label
- Politeness and its discontents : problems in French classical culture, Peter France, (electronic book)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- CR9780511551451
- Extent
- xii, 245 p.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9780521370707
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Type of computer file
Subject
- European literature -- French influences
- France -- Civilization -- 18th century
- French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
- French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- French literature -- European influences
- Literature and society -- France
- Social ethics in literature
- Classicism -- France
- Courtesy in literature
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