Perfection
By: editor, Anne L. Birberick.
Contributors: Birberick, Anne L. 1954-
Series: EMF : studies in early modern France -- v. 12; EMF, studies in early modern France -- v. 12
Publisher: Rookwood Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charlottesville, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781886365261
Subjects: French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism; Perfection in literature; French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Articles in English or French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Anne L. Birberick; title: Useful wounds  -- Chloé Hogg; title: Construction de la figure monarchique et perfection divine dans les récits d'entrée royale à Avignon (1600 et 1622)  -- Louise Frappier; title: Productive perfection : the trope of the river in early modern political writing  -- Katherine Ibbett; title: Corrompre la perfection--de La carte de tendre aux Royaumes d'amour  -- Daniel Maher; title: Lessons too old and frocks too fine : anachronistic perfection and the eclipse of pastoral in Perrault's Griselidis  -- Twyla Meding; title: (Im)perfecting the self : Montaigne's pedagogical ideal  -- Zahi Zalloua; title: Contres-modèles de perfection dans Les caractères de La Bruyère  -- Karolyn Waterson -- Corneille's theatrical approach to perfection in Sophonisbe / -- Judd D. Hubert; title: Corneille and tragic perfection : rewriting Oedipus  -- Helen L. Harrison; title: Perfect pitch : sound, aurality, and rhetoric from Marin Mersenne's Harmonie universelle to Bernard Lamy's La rhetorique, ou l'art de parler.