Fayçal Falaky, Reginald Mcginnis, Rori Bloom, Jean–alexandre Perras, Zeina Hakim

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Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France

Beschreibung

This collection of essays brings together different critical perspectives on play in eighteenth-century France. From dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries to the ludic nature of narrative and theatrical performance, this volume offers a new outlook on how play was used to represent and reimagine the world.

Autor

FAYÇAL FALAKY is an associate professor of French at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he specializes in eighteenth-century French literature, culture, and politics. He is the author of Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau. REGINALD MCGINNIS is a professor of French at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is the author of Essai sur l'origine de la mystification and a book, co-authored with John Vignaux Smyth, titled Mock Ritual in the Modern Era. Current projects include a book on the abbé Edme Mallet.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781684483419
• ISBN-10: 1684483417
• Artikelnr.: 62034125