Format:
1 Online-Ressource (278 Seiten)
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27 ill
Edition:
1st, New ed
ISBN:
9781787074934
Note:
Online resource; title from title screen (viewed June 10, 2019)
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This volume offers a multidimensional exploration of the theme of time in early modern France: of time past, time present and time future, in literature and in life. In poetry, the importance of past and future perspectives was studied by Maynard and La Fontaine. The dynamics of tragic drama were haunted by the past, driven by the urgency of the present and pervasively aware of the alternative futures that could be created, while in imaginative fiction there was a perennial fascination with possible future societies, Utopian or otherwise. The awareness of transience and mortality gave urgency to the right ordering of life. The Church offered guidance to the pious for their days to be passed in disciplined devotion, while the moralists urged their worldly readers to redeem their misspent time and look to things eternal. At the end, the right ordering of death was both a social and a religious preoccupation. The essays gathered here aim to stimulate an imaginative engagement with this important theme and open up avenues for future research
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781787074927
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781787074941
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781787074958
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Französisch
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Literatur
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Zeit
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Vergangenheit
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Zukunft
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Geschichte 1600-1700
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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