{"product_id":"subjectivity-and-the-signs-of-james-m-hembree-9780820428178","title":"Subjectivity and the Signs of Love: Discourse, Desire, and the Emergence of Modernity in Honoré d'Urfé's «L'astrée»","description":"Centering his analysis on the consequences for self-representation of the epistemic shift to modernity, Dr. Hembree reassesses the cultural importance of one of the early seventeenth-century's neglected masterpieces of prose fiction, Honoré d'Urfé's \u003ci\u003eL'Astrée\u003c\/i\u003e. He argues that the narrative, published in five volumes from 1607 to 1627, provides an intellectual bridge between the rejection of ontological guarantees of identity and meaning in Montaigne's \u003ci\u003eEssais\u003c\/i\u003e, and the formulation of subjective consciousness as a new foundation for self-knowledge in the writings of Descartes. Suspended between medieval and modern paradigms of self-representation, \u003ci\u003eL'Astrée\u003c\/i\u003e contributed to the reconceptualization of the self and the social symbolic order that occurred in the early modern period. Therein lies its relevance for twentieth-century readers who, like d'Urfé's contemporaries, are caught in a semiotic crisis engendered by yet another cultural divide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James M. Hembree\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820428175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820428178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"James M. Hembree","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48241121427711,"sku":"9780820428178","price":57.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_414dbe71-b4ca-4d9d-9eeb-708491b0e774.jpg?v=1772652842","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/subjectivity-and-the-signs-of-james-m-hembree-9780820428178","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}