Clément Marot and Religion
Clément Marot and Religion

Author: Dick Wursten

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-05-20

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 9004193529

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Famous mainly for his chansons and epigrams, the French poet Clément Marot (1496-1544) also supplied the texts for the Huguenot Psalter. Did he only paraphrase the Psalms to do Marguerite de Navarre, the leading lady of reform-oriented France, a favour, or was there more to it? This book offers a new approach to this question, which has got stuck in a yes-no discussion. A breakthrough is forced by the author’s focussing on the Psalm paraphrases themselves, which until now have never actually been included in Marot research. Analysed from a multidisciplinary perspective the successive versions of these paraphrases reveal that Marot was interested in reaching a consistent, literary, and historically reliable versification of the Psalms, thus implicitly questioning the traditional christological exegesis. The author’s perusal of Jewish exegetical insights (Kimhi, Ibn Ezra) in Martin Bucer’s Commentary shows where Marot acquired a satisfactory hermeneutical framework.

Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert
Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert

Author: Ullrich Langer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-02-28

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1009225251

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Ullrich Langer investigates why lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity from Virgil to Flaubert.

Va Lettre Va
Va Lettre Va

Author: Yvonne LeBlanc

Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781883479046

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Born to Write
Born to Write

Author: Neil Kenny

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 0198852398

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The first extensive study of the intersection between family and social hierarchy within early modern literary production.

David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer
David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer

Author: Anne Lake Prescott

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2024-05-28

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1526179377

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For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, because of her unique blend of learning and wit and an inspiration through her tireless encouragement of younger scholars and students. Her passion has always been the invisible bridge across the Channel: the complex of relations, literary and political, between Britain and France. The essays in this long-awaited collection range from Edmund Spenser to John Donne, from Clément Marot to Pierre de Ronsard. Prescott has a particular fondness for King David, who appears several times; and the reader will encounter chessmen, bishops, male lesbian voices and Roman whores. Always Prescott’s immense erudition is accompanied by a sly and gentle wit that invites readers to share her amusement. Reading her is a joyful education.

Technique and Technology
Technique and Technology

Author: Adrian Armstrong

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780198159896

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Literary studies cannot neglect the study of books, the physical objects through which literary texts are transmitted. Book form is especially relevant to the literature of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, which saw the crucial shift from manuscript to print in Western Europe.This book examines manuscripts and printed editions of three major French writers of this key period: Jean Molinet, Jean Lemaire de Belges and Jean Bouchet. Presentational features which influence the reading of poems, such as layout, illustration, anthologization and paratext, are analysed. Thedevelopment of these features reflects a gradual change in the ways in which literary self-consciousness is manifested. In earlier texts, produced within an essentially manuscript culture, poets' creative investment in their work is exhibited primarily as formal virtuosity. As printing becomesdominant, such virtuosity tends to be rejected in favour of self-commentary and an apparently more personal discourse.