EMF Critiques Volume 1 Contents:
Emblematics and Seventeenth-Century French Literature:
Descartes, Tristan, La Fontaine, and Perrault
By Laurence Grove

Foreword

I. Introduction ..................................................................................... 1

II. Emblematics in Seventeenth-Century France ................................... 5

III. Descartes: Traces of an Emblematic Upbringing ............................ 28

 

A. The Influence of a Jesuit Education ......................................... 31
B. Descartes’s Language in the Light of Emblematics ................. 45
C. “ceux qui suivent maintenant Aristote…sont comme le lierre…”60

IV. Tristan’s Emblematic Sonnets ........................................................ 74

 

A. Glasgow University Library SMAdd.392 ................................ 79
B. Tristan and Emblematic Reading Practices .............................. 82

V. Emblematic Structures in the Work of La Fontaine ....................... 105

 

A. La Fontaine and Guéroult ..................................................... 110
B. Visual Interaction with La Fontaine’s Texts ........................... 123
C. La Fontaine and Fouquet....................................................... 142

VI. Perrault’s Debt to the Device ........................................................ 163

 

A. Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal ms. 3328 ...................................... 165
B. Charles Perrault and the Art of the Device ............................. 177

VII. Conclusion: Further Possibilities .................................................. 190

Appendix A: Tristan L’Hermite:

The GUL SMAdd.392 Manuscripts ...................................... 205

Appendix B: Charles Perrault’s Discours sur l’Art des Devises ................ 228

Bibliography ............................................................................................ 259

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