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Guy de Maupassant : 2 vol.
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ISBN: 9788886609500 8886609507 Year: 2008 Volume: 31 Publisher: Paris Roma : Memini,


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Le corps romanesque : images et usages topiques sous l'Ancien Régime : actes du XXe Colloque de la SATOR
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ISBN: 9782763787923 Year: 2009 Volume: *7 Publisher: Laval Presses de l'Université Laval


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The literary market : authorship and modernity in the old regime
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ISBN: 9780812241952 0812241959 0812203577 128389100X Year: 2010 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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A central theme in the history of Old Regime authorship highlights the opportunities offered by a growing book trade to writers seeking to free themselves from patrons and live "by the pen." Accounts of this passage from patronage to market have explored in far greater detail the opportunities themselves-the rising sums paid by publishers and the progression of laws protecting literary property-than how and why writers would have seized on them, no doubt because the choice to do so has seemed an obvious or natural one for writers assumed to prefer economic self-sufficiency over elite protection. In The Literary Market, Geoffrey Turnovsky claims that there was nothing obvious or natural about the choice. Writers had been involved in commercial book publication since the earliest days of the printing press, yet had not necessarily linked these activities with their freedom to think and write. The association of autonomy and professionalism was forged, not given. Analyzing the literary market as a key articulation of the association, Turnovsky explores how in eighteenth-century polemics a rhetoric of commercial authorship came to signify independence for intellectuals. He finds the roots of the connection not in the claims of entrepreneurial writers to rights and income but in a world to which that of the modern author has been contrasted: the aristocratic culture of the seventeenth century. Aristocratic culture, he argues, generated a disparaging view of the professional author as one defined by activities tainting him or her as greedy and arrogant and therefore unworthy of protection and socially isolated. The Literary Market examines the story of the "birth of the author" in terms of the revalorization of this negative trope in Enlightenment-era debates about the radically changing role of writers in society.


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Les premiers imprimés français et la littérature de Bourgogne, 1470-1550 : actes du colloque international organisé à l'Université Littoral-Côte d'Opale, Dunkerque
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ISBN: 9782745354617 2745354612 9782745354624 Year: 2021 Volume: 86 Publisher: Paris : Honoré Champion éditeur,

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La 4e de couverture indique : "Issu des rencontres internationales qui se sont tenues à l'Université Littoral - Côte d'Opale (Dunkerque) les 22 et 23 octobre 2015, le présent ouvrage se voudrait un espace de réflexion sur la place occupée par la littérature française de Bourgogne dans l'activité éditoriale des premiers imprimeurs (1470-1550). Il vise à appréhender le rôle joué par l'imprimerie naissante dans le rayonnement de la vaste production littéraire élaborée sous l'impulsion des Grands Ducs de Bourgogne et à apprécier dans quelle mesure les libraires-éditeurs des grandes villes du Nord contribuèrent, au tournant du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance, à la connaissance et au rayonnement de la culture française. La relecture active des textes et leur réinterprétation par les premiers imprimeurs constituent une pratique d'appropriation qui leur permet, durant plus d'un demi-siècle, de rajeunir et de rénover la culture bourguignonne pour qu'elle continue à répondre aux attentes d'un lectorat dont les goûts se renouvellent perpétuellement."


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Accès aux textes médiévaux de la fin du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle
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ISBN: 9782745322708 9782745346049 2745346040 2745322702 Year: 2012 Volume: 12 Publisher: Paris Honoré Champion


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A checklist of editions of major French authors in Oxford libraries : 1526-1800
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ISBN: 0729403475 Year: 1986 Publisher: Oxford Voltaire Foundation

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