Poet and the King: Jean de La Fontaine and His Century 9780268038779

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Автор: Marc Fumaroli
Название: Poet and the King: Jean de La Fontaine and His Century
ISBN: 9780268038779
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

Биографии царственных особ

Литературоведение: с 1500 до 1800 г.

Литературоведение: поэзия и поэты

История Европы

История раннего нового времени: с 1450/1500 гг. по 1700 г.

ISBN-10: 0268038775
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 542
Вес: 1.02 кг.
Дата издания: 2002-08-31
Язык: English
Размер: 239 x 167 x 41
Читательская аудитория: Undergraduate
Основная тема: Biography: historical, political & military,Literary studies: poetry & poets, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical,HISTORY / Europe / France,LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Подзаголовок: Jean de la fontaine and his century
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The Poet and the King, described by the New York Review of Books as “the finest and most perceptive of all the innumerable accounts of La Fontaine,” is being offered for the first time in an English translation. La Fontaine, whose works are still memorized by French schoolchildren, is regarded by Fumaroli, and countless others, as the greatest French lyric poet of the seventeenth century. La Fontaine is best known, however, for his fables and Contes.Marc Fumaroli’s grand study is almost as much about Louis XIV as it is about La Fontaine. He provides a detailed analysis of the absolutist politics and attempts by the king and his ministers to enforce an official cultural style. Fumaroli’s work is a meditation on the plight of the artist under such a ruler during the imposition of a tyrannical, centralized political regime. Of particular interest to Fumaroli is Nicolas Foucquet, whose fall from power is the central event of the book. Foucquet, La Fontaine’s patron, was arrested and imprisoned by order of Louis XIV on false charges of embezzlement and treason. For La Fontaine, the arrest was a disaster. Foucquet had generously supported and protected La Fontaine, who remained loyal to him for decades, helping in his defense and writing pleas for pardon. Many of Foucquet’s associates were arrested. Others, including La Fontaine, prudently left town. During the reign of Louis XIV, the basic role of literature in the eyes of the court was that of an official propaganda machine. The royal cultural policy supported only tragedy and the heroic ode, and demanded works that praised the king. In the years that followed Foucquet’s arrest, La Fontaine had to rely on support from groups unconnected with the government, including Jansenists, Protestants, and the libertine, homosexual circle of the Duc de Vend?me. Fumaroli reads history with an eye on the modern world. His La Fontaine and his Foucquet, his world of free culture in opposition to state power, are models for the liberal vision of the possible role of culture in modern society. The Poet and the King offers not only a captivating history of one of France’s greatest poets, but also carries the message that great literature and art can be created in spite of repressive cultural and political regimes.

Poet and the King: Jean de La Fontaine and His Century, Marc Fumaroli