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Le Manteau d'Ulysse. Poétique de la ruse aléthique. Gilles DECLERCQ est professeur de rhétorique et de dramaturgie, Directeur du Centre de recherche sur la théorie et l'histoire du théâtre à la Sorbonne Nouvelle et président de la Société Jean Racine. Il est connu pour ses ouvrages sur la rhétorique antique et moderne. |
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Sacred Music and Royal Propaganda under Louis XIV (ca. 1661-1686). A musicologist at the University of Nancy, Jean-Paul MONTAGNIER specializes in the sacred French music of the Baroque. He is involved with Musica Gallica, an edition of the works of the musical inheritance of France, and is the artistic director of the Vocal Ensemble of Chartreuse de Bonlieu. |
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Extreme Makeover: from Native American "Savages" into Civilized, French Catholics. The Foundations of France's Assimilation Policy in the Seventeenth Century. Sara MELZER is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Discourses of the Fall: A study of Pascal's Pensées and the co-editor of Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution (Oxford) and From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France (University of California).
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Petrarch, Ronsard and the Seven Year Itch. David QUINT's fields of study include classical and Renaissance heroic poetry and their influence on the epics of Milton and Spenser, Renaissance Drama, and the literature and legacy of humanism. He is the present chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale, and is particularly interested in the larger cultural meanings vested in literary and generic forms. |
