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Author:

Keller, Marcus, 1968-

Title:

Figurations of France : literary nation-building in times of crisis (1550-1650) / Marcus Keller.

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press ;

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

x, 211 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

French literature--16th century--History and criticism.
French literature--17th century--History and criticism.
France--In literature.
State, The, in literature.
National characteristics, French, in literature.
Nation-state--Philosophy.
Bellettrie
Frans
Staat (politicologie)
Nationale kenmerken
Frankrijk

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the (early) modern nation: figuration, creation, critique -- The language plant in the garden of France: imitation and nation in La deffence et illustration de la langue Françoyse -- Mother France and her dysfunctional family: religious and national imageries in Ronsard's Discours and continuation and in D'Aubigné's Tragiques -- "A violent and treacherous schoolmistress": custom and the nationalization of the individual in the Essais -- Faith in the spirit of France: mythology and the myth of the nation in Malherbe's Odes -- Blood transvaluations and the limits of patriotism: staging fictive ethnicity in Le cid and Horace -- Conclusion: the open boundaries of literary nation-building.

ISBN:

1611490499 (electronic)
9781611490497 (electronic)
1611490480 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611490480 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)698328027

LCCN:

2011004776

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)