The Art of Instruction: Pedagogy and Literature in 17th-Century France aims to add a new dimension to the scholarly discussion on how culture is inculcated by focusing on the interplay between aesthetic forms and pedagogical agendas. The nine essays in the collection take into account the full range of meanings associated with the term art: science, method, learning, beautiful expression, artistic creation. In exploring the role art plays in shaping an instructional system, the volume¿s contributors examine literary genres that are both established (comedies, tragedies, sonnets) and nascent (novels, manuals, gazettes) as well as the works of a diverse group of seventeenth-century writers: Chassignet, Subligny, Scarron, Lafayette, La Bruyère, Maintenon, de Visé, Boursault, Molière and Racine. What emerges from this diversity is an invaluable exploration of how educational imperatives, no matter their focus, rely as much on manipulating artistic forms as they do on articulating didactic principles. Broad in its scope while remaining thematically coherent, The Art of Instruction will be of interest to students and scholars of early modern French literature, history, culture and pedagogy.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Brill
ISBN-10
904202335x
ISBN-13
9789042023352
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038415757
Product Key Features
Author
Anne L. Birberick
Publication Name
Art of Instruction : Essays on Pedagogy and Literature in 17th-Century France
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Series
Faux Titre Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
300 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
306
Table of Content
Introduction Nicholas PAIGE: Relearning to Read: Truth and Reference in Subligny's La Fausse Clélie Jennifer R. PERLMUTTER: Sociopolitical Educational and the Nouvelles of Le Mercure galant Twyla MEDING: Keys of Iron, Keys of Gold: Enclosure, Example and Alchemical Teachings in the Novella and L 'École des femmes Larry RIGGS: Prudes, Précieux and Patriarchs: Pedagogies of Paranoia and RepressionPerry J. GETHNER: Didactic Strategies in French Classical ComedyAnne L. BIRBERICK: Behind Closed Doors: Theater, Pedagogy and the 'Crisis' of Esther Claire CARLIN: Perfect Harmony: Love and Marriage in Early Modern PedagogyMark A. COHEN: Satirical Realia: The Caractères ' Conversion of Royal Pedagogy to Social CritiqueChristine MCCALL PROBES: The Prince and the Subject at the Intersection of Emblematic Poetry and Art: Moral and Pragmatic Reflection in Jean-Baptiste Chassignet's Poetry and Pierre de Loysi's EngravingsContributorsIndex