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Article: Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
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- French Forum
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- January 1, 2004
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Roland Racevskis. Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV. Lewisburg PA: Bucknell University Press, 2003. 216 pp.
Roland Racevskis's recent study sets out to examine both chronometry and the epistemology of time in late seventeenth-century France, the latter especially as it is gleaned from works by Moliere. Sevigne and Lafayette. These works and writers are chosen, admittedly, from among many possible, but within the scope of the book, they illustrate the point adequately. Throughout, Racevskis keeps the topic of time and the effects of time-consciousness before the reader who should be grateful for the book's concision and focus.
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