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<BR>Hi!<BR><BR>Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org <BR>Tue Oct 6 05:09:55 CEST 2009 <BR><BR><BR>> CE Whitehead <cewcathar at hotmail dot com> wrote:<BR><BR>>> Actually the description field, "Early Modern French," is way too <BR>>> vague (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_France<BR>>> for a description of what "early modern France"--and I presume as <BR>>> well, "early modern French"--encompasses;<BR><BR>> I wouldn't think the concept of "early modern" French, the language, <BR>> necessarily has anything to do with the concept of "early modern" <BR>> France, the country.<BR>Actually the dates for both Early Modern France and Early Modern French literature seem to be roughly the same; I checked google--and the literature that is associated with "Early Modern French" is generally literature from the Renaissance and 17th century! A Yale bibliography (<A href="http://www.library.yale.edu/Internet/frenchbib.html">http://www.library.yale.edu/Internet/frenchbib.html</A>) may include the 18th century as well (??--I'm not sure on this point) during which some elements of the variant encompassed by the subtag [acad1694] persisted. (See my notes below on the dates encompassed by "Early Modern French.")<BR>>> however I checked--the 'comments' come up with Richard Ishida's search <BR>>> utility!<BR><BR>> It depends on the application. Mine displays comments when you <BR>> click Validate.<BR><BR>Thanks for this information. Your application? Written by ???<BR><BR>Is description field automatically displayed for your application?<BR><BR>If so, then maybe the description field is a good place to put, "as catalogued in the 1694 edition of the 'Dictionnaire de l'académie françoise'."<BR><BR>
But so long as this information is in the comments field . . . <BR>
I think we can leave things as they are for now.<BR>
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Best,<BR><BR>C. E. Whitehead<BR>cewcathar@hotmail.com<BR><BR>
* * *<BR><BR>NOTES on the dates encompassed by "Early Modern French"<BR><BR>I checked <BR>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Early+Modern++French&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g1<BR><BR>Early Modern France and Early Modern French seem to be synonynmous and include the Renaissance and the 17th century; early Modern France includes part of the 18th century as well; it's not clear that Early Modern French (literature) does however! Yale however groups the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries together (http://www.library.yale.edu/Internet/frenchbib.html) --of course, some of the features of Early Modern French do not disappear until sometime in the 18tth century whereas others disappear by the end of the 17th century<BR><BR><BR>* http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-181463711.html<BR><BR>lists "Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature." By EMMA GILBY. London: Le genda. 2006.<BR>The above book deals with Pascal and other 17th century authors. <BR><BR>* http://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Unconscious-Writing-Cambridge-Studies/dp/0521410312<BR><BR>Conley's book reviewed here seems to deal with Renaissance texts.<BR><BR>* http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-16946629/graphic-unconscious-early-modern.html<BR><BR>THe above article deals with Montaigne and the Renaissance<BR><BR><BR>* http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-114594486.html<BR><BR>The above article deals with the 17th century.<BR><BR>--cew<BR>* * *<BR><BR>> --<BR>> Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org<BR>> RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s ­<BR><BR><BR> </body>
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