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Managing Time: Literature and Devotion in Early Modern France

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 9 Jun 2022 17:39:22
Managing Time: Literature and Devotion in Early Modern France

Joanna Barker, "Managing Time: Literature and Devotion in Early Modern France "
English | ISBN: 1787074927 | 2017 | 278 pages | PDF | 4 MB

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.
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