How Do I Know Thee?: Theatrical and Narrative Cognition in Seventeenth-Century France

by Richard E. Goodkin and Lukasz Tischner

The classical period in France presents a particularly lively battleground for the transition between oral-visual culture, on the one hand, and print culture on the other. The former depended on learning from sources of knowledge directly, in their presence, in a manner analogous to theatrical experience. The latter became characterized by the distance and abstraction of reading. How Do I Know Thee? explores the ways in which literature,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810131803
• ISBN13: 9780810131804
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"