Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- La Fontaine: The Ethical Power of Style
- Ist Teil von
- Freedom and the Arts, 2012, p.319-338
- Ort / Verlag
- Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2012
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- On the second of May, 1684, La Fontaine, now aged sixty-two, was admitted to the Académie Française, taking the seat of the Prime Minister Colbert, who had died the year before. Colbert had been ill-disposed toward the poet for a long time, and was the principal agent many years before in the arrest and imprisonment of La Fontaine’s patron, Nicolas Fouquet. For more than six months, Louis XIV refused to ratify La Fontaine’s election. When the ceremony of admission finally took place, the speech of welcome was made by the abbé de La Chambre, director of the Académie, who remarked
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780674047525, 0674047524DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674065499.c25Titel-ID: cdi_walterdegruyter_books_10_4159_harvard_9780674065499_c25
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Arts, Axiology, Christianity, Communications, Ethics, Fables, Government, Government officials, Heads of state, Language, Linguistics, Literary criticism, Literary devices, Literary genres, Literary studies, Literary style, Literature, Lyric poetry, Morality, Narrative poetry, Narratives, Normative ethics, Philosophy, Phonology, Poetry, Political science, Prime ministers, Protestantism, Religion, Social sciences, Speech segments, Spiritual belief systems, Syllables