Approaches to teaching Lafayette's The princess of Clèves /
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| Imprint: | New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1998. |
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| Description: | xi, 211 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Approaches to teaching world literature 61 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3618374 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface to the Series
- Preface to the Volume
- Introduction: La Princesse de Cleves and the History of the French Novel
- Part 1. Materials
- Editions
- French Editions
- English Translations
- The Instructor's Library
- Background Studies
- Critical Studies
- Aids to Teaching
- Part 2. Approaches
- Introduction
- Mirroring Society: La Princesse de Cleves in Context
- Lafayette's First Readers: The Quarrel of La Princesse de Cleves
- Jansenist Resonances in La Princesse de Cleves
- Court Society and Economies of Exchange
- Virtue and Civility in La Princesse de Cleves
- Masculinity in La Princesse de Cleves
- Making Sense of the Ending: Passion, Virtue, and Female Subjectivity
- Themes and Structures
- The Mother-Daughter Subtext in La Princesse de Cleves
- Conflicting Emotions: Personal and Cultural Vraisemblance in La Princesse de Cleves
- Getting Inside: Digression, Entanglement, and the Internal Narratives
- Mapping La Princesse de Cleves: A Spatial Approach
- Seeing and Being Seen: Visual Codes and Metaphors in La Princesse de Cleves
- Truly Inimitable? Repetition in La Princesse de Cleves
- Specific Teaching Contexts
- Teaching La Princesse de Cleves in Translation
- What's Love Got to Do with It? The Issue of Vulnerability in an Anthological Approach
- Romance and Novel in La Princesse de Cleves
- Reading La Princesse de Cleves with the Heptameron
- Mediation of Desire in La Princesse de Cleves
- Teaching La Princesse de Cleves in a Women's Studies Course
- Appendixes
- 1.. The Quarrel over La Princesse de Cleves: Passages from Valincour, Lettres, and Charnes, Conversations
- 2.. Undergraduate Study Guide
- Genealogy, La Princesse de Cleves
- Notes on Contributors
- Survey Participants
- Works Cited
- Index
