Madame de Lafayette
When, in 2007, the French President scorned the idea that budding public servants should be required to read La Princesse de Cleves, the ensuing protests, whatever their purely political dimension, were a reminder of this work's iconic status. Naturally enough, perhaps, this spotlight left in the shade the other works attributed to Mme de Lafayette. There was also scant reference to the messy question of attribution. With no manuscript in existence the present attribution of La Princesse de Cleves was made ‘definitively’ only a century after its publication in 1678: for example, the 1764 reprint of the 1704 Paris edition cites La Rochefoucauld, Mme de Lafayette, and Segrais as co-authors. Does this matter? True, we would still watch Hamlet if it were performed by the Royal Bacon Company. However, in the case of Mme de Lafayette, biographical details are still often used to shore up critical hypotheses. At the outset, therefore, one issue deserves attention: what does ‘Mme de Lafayette’ now imply?
A Quarrel in La Princesse de Clèves: Ancient Princess and Modern Nemours
Abstract Centuries of eloquent debate on the efficacy or absence of religion in La Princesse de Clèves have not yet brought resolution. A reasonable hypothesis is that the novel, without being read as a philosophical roman à thèse by any means, may productively be interpreted as reflective of a Zeitgeist in which issues of moral theology and the history of ideas have considerable currency, even if in the novel they are not visible as such on the level of motif. The protagonist adheres to a code of morality which derives from the Platonic and Augustinian (and more proximately to the novel's writing, Jansenistic) tradition. The Duc de Nemours, on the other hand, gives voice to values situated more closely to the Aristotelian thought of Thomas Aquinas, and the moral conflict in the novel's action depicts a contest between these positions. The final meeting between the two characters provides an illustration of this moral argument, with the heroine speaking for an absolute and unchanging code while Nemours advocates a morality more attuned to the standards of a modern world. Seen in the context of ideas, this is something of a philosophical quarrel of Ancients and Moderns.
Mastering Web Services Security
Acknowledgments. Foreword. Introduction. Overview of Web Services Security. Web Services. Getting Started with Web Services Security. XML Security and WS-Security. Security Assertion Markup Language. Principles of Securing Web Services. Security of Infrastructures for Web Services. Securing .NET Web Services. Securing Java Web Services. Interoperability of Web Services Security Technologies. Administrative Considerations for Web Services Security. Planning and Building a Secure Web Services Architecture. Glossary. References. Index.