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Author Call, Michael, 1976-

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

Publication Info. West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, 2015.
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; volume 63
Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 63.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Molière, 1622-1673 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Molière, 1622-1673.
Criticism and interpretation.
Authors in literature.
Authors in literature.
Publishers and publishing in literature.
Publishers and publishing in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Call, Michael. Would-Be Author : Molière and the Comedy of Print. Ashland : Purdue University Press, ©2015
ISBN 9781612493855 (electronic book)
1612493858 (electronic book)
9781557537089 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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