Session Details

Thursday, 27 December

82. Quarrels, Debates, and Controversies in Seventeenth-Century France

5:15–6:30 p.m., Ontario, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Seventeenth-Century French Literature

Presiding: Erec R. Koch, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville

1. “Cartographier l’esprit: Le débat autour du mystère de la conscience,” Bernadette Hoefer, Harvard Univ.

2. “I Publish, Therefore I Perish ... or Do I? Cartesian Agitations on Print and Publication,” Abby Elizabeth Zanger, Cambridge, MA

3. “In Commemoration of the 350th Anniversary of Pascal’s Lettres provinciales: ‘L’Amour de Dieu,’ Rhetorical Strategies of the Controversy,” Christine M. Probes, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa

4. “Claude-François Menestrier and the Querelle des anciens et des modernes,” Jean-Vincent Blanchard, Swarthmore Coll.

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