Seventeenth-Century Literature

4 credits · Undergraduate

In A. Authors from the first half of the 17th century. The Baroque; its chief exponents, literary attempts to resolve the crisis in Renaissance values, formulation of new concepts in philosophy and psychology, experiments with traditional forms in poetry, fiction, and the theatre. Preciosity, Descartes, and rationalism. in B. The concept of classicism and the development of tragedy. Jansenism, the doctrine of Port-Royal. Social satire and comedy.