This work on aesthetics ties together the research on painting and literary forms of representation with close scrutiny of four major figures from the perspective of the creators and their analysis of the creative process. It examines French 18th-century aesthetics, visual arts, painting, autobiography and theatre. Problems of representation incude analysis of genre, gender, species (still-life vs. portraiture), social cast (noble vs. bourgeois), and the necessity of self-erasure in the display of oneself as an artist.

Explorations De L'Imaginaire De LA Representation Au Dix-Huitieme Siecle Francais-Chardin, Vigee-Lebrun, Diderot, Marivaux (Studies in French Literature) (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Woodward, Servanne

History & Criticism

Edwin Mellen Pr

This informative and thought-provocating book gives an intimate portrait of two major 18th-century French philosophers famous for their influence over modern aesthetics. Their personal reflexions on art, beauty and inventive genius are vividly presented in the context of Parisian artistic institutions during the reigns of Louis XIV, XV and XVI. The book offers a refreshing perspective into the pre-Revolutionary movement of the Enlightenment promoted by Diderot and the pre-Romantic sensibility modelled by Rousseau. This look back into the 18th century is very suggestive in regards to the current philosophies of art and may raise new answers to old questions.

Diderot and Rousseau's Contributions to Aesthetics (New Studies in Aesthetics)

Arts & Photography

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Incarnant une approche holistique de la traduction française, Exercices d'apprentissage pour la traduction combine des extraits et des exercices conçus pour aider les étudiants à apprendre à traduire des textes du français vers l'anglais et de l'anglais vers le français. Cette compilation permet d'exercer et de développer progressivement les capacités d'analyse et les processus de réflexion nécessaires à la traduction professionnelle. En mettant l'accent sur des processus de réflexion minutieux et sur la compréhension et la maîtrise progressives de l'étudiant, ce manuel insuffle variété et flexibilité dans ses enseignements. Exercices d'apprentissage pour la traduction maintient l'intérêt des étudiants grâce à un contenu varié provenant de différentes régions du monde francophone, de livres pour enfants et d'exemples littéraires, ainsi que d'autres récits informatifs, tandis qu'un large éventail de leçons permet aux instructeurs d'utiliser les exercices dans un ordre qui correspond à leurs objectifs pédagogiques. Structuré comme un manuel d'exercices qui guide les étudiants à travers le processus de traduction textuelle et le présente comme une série de possibilités et de choix facilement contrôlables, cet ouvrage contemporain, novateur et accessible est précieux pour les cours d'introduction à la traduction française à l'ère des applications de traduction automatique.

Exercices D'apprentissage Pour La Traduction (French Edition)

Canadian Scholars Pr

Baroque novels focus on the psychology of love, while love in the context of nature is the subject of the pastoral genre. Introducing animals to such texts proves unexpectedly challenging. The inclusion of pets in the artistic representation involves a reversal of scale and various modes of comedy, including socio-political satire. At a time when some writers fantasize that children can be born of a human-animal couple, or question the degree of free will and physiological determinism influencing human or animal actions, scientific and philosophical enquiries threaten to reduce the whole animated world to a physiology akin to one of automatons. It is a criticism levied by the sentimentaires against the libertines. Eventually, the study must be initiated with the monitoring of the modulated and variable conceptions of the persons constituting a «couple» and the status of the «pet».

Pets and their Couples: Chardin, Charrière, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Marivaux (Natur, Wissenschaft und die Künste / Nature, Science and the Arts / Nature, Science et les Arts)

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

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Explorations De L'Imaginaire De LA Representation Au Dix-Huitieme Siecle Francais-Chardin, Vigee-Lebrun, Diderot, Marivaux (Studies in French Literature) (French Edition)

Diderot and Rousseau's Contributions to Aesthetics (New Studies in Aesthetics)

Exercices D'apprentissage Pour La Traduction (French Edition)

Pets and their Couples: Chardin, Charrière, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Marivaux (Natur, Wissenschaft und die Künste / Nature, Science and the Arts / Nature, Science et les Arts)