The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past
The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past

Author: Anthony Welch

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2012-11-27

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0300178867

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This book explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, Anthony Welch argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors. Welch shows how the period’s writers imagined lost civilizations built on speech and song—from Homeric Greece and Celtic Britain to the Americas—and struggled to reconcile this oral inheritance with an early modern culture of the book. Welch’s wide-ranging study offers a new perspective on Renaissance Europe’s epic literature and its troubled relationship with antiquity.

The Classical Heritage in France
The Classical Heritage in France

Author: Gerald N. Sandy

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 9789004119161

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A study of the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the 16th and 17th centuries. There are surveys on topics as diverse as the role of French travellers to classical lands in transforming perceptible reality into narrative textuality, and the influence of ancient law in France.

Transformations of Memory and Forgetting in Sixteenth-Century France
Transformations of Memory and Forgetting in Sixteenth-Century France

Author: Nicolas Russell

Publisher: University of Delaware

Published: 2011-04-29

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1611490553

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This book proposes that in a number of French Renaissance texts, we observe a shift in thinking about memory and forgetting. Focusing on a corpus of texts by Marguerite de Navarre, Pierre de Ronsard and Michel de Montaigne, it explores several parallel transformations of and challenges to classical and medieval discourses on memory.