FRENCH

Mirages de la farce: Fête des fous, Bruegel et Molière

By Thierry Boucquey

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1991
ISBN
9027217521, 9789027217523
Language
french
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9951597 bytes)
Series
Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages
Pages
175\176
Time added
2017-05-23 17:00:50
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Description

Establishing the notion of reasonable foolishness and foolish reason as a generic principle of the old French farce, Boucquey's study examines the interdependencies among four key mimetic phenomena: the demented universe of the Feast of Fools festival, the genre of the farce, Bruegel's representation of the world, and the euphoric comedies of triumphant madness created by Moliere. This reinterpretation of French farce according to the principle of a topsy-turvy world reveals the link of madness that unites the four modes of production studied, from textual linearity, through representational surface, to theatrical three-dimensionality. Of pluralist conception, the book's eclectic critical apparatus draws readily on foundations as diverse as historicism, semiotics, structuralism, Foucauldian theory, iconography, Derridean textualization, and etymology.

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