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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460876203321

Autore

Call Michael

Titolo

The would-be author : Molière and the comedy of print / / Michael Call

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61249-385-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

Purdue Studies in Romance Literature ; ; Volume 63

Disciplina

842.4

Soggetti

Publishers and publishing in literature

Authors in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The death of the author -- Moliere's writers -- The early plays and the pirates who loved them -- Comedic authorship and its discontents -- "Je veux qu'on me distingue" -- The school for publishers -- Collaboration's pyrrhic triumph -- Afterword: The death of the actor.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first full-length study to examine Molière's evolving (and at times contradictory) authorial strategies, as evidenced both by his portrayal of authors and publication within the plays and by his own interactions with the seventeenth-century Parisian publishing industry. Historians of the book have described the time period that coincides with Molière's theatrical activity as centrally important to the development of authors' rights and to the professionalization of the literary field. A seventeenth-century author, however, was not so much born as negotiated through often acrim