Being Interior
Subtitle: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeeth-Century France (New Cultural Studies)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780812235777
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1600 to c 1700; France; 17th Century Literature - History And Criticism; Biography And Autobiography; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Literary Criticism; History and criticism; European - French; Autobiography; Semiotics & Theory; Authors, French; Biography
First sentence: Historians do not care much for anachronisms, and for good reason: on the one hand, anachronism strikes at what they hold dearest, namely, rigorous attention to historical specificity; on the other hand, it serves as a disquieting reminder that interpretations of the past can be articulated only from the perspective of an inescapable present.