An Introduction to French Sixteenth Century Poetic Theory: Texts and Commentary
Author: Sydney John Holyoake
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780719004759
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Author: Sydney John Holyoake
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780719004759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: S. John Holyoake
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Neil Kenny
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1472521358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe's greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne's Essays, Rabelais' comic fictions, Ronsard's poetry, Calvin's theology. These and numerous other extraordinary writings emerged from and contributed to cultural upheavals: the movement usually known as the Renaissance, which sought to revive ancient Greek and Roman culture for present-day purposes; religious reform, including the previously unthinkable rejection of Catholicism by many in the Reformation, culminating in decades of civil war in France; the French language's transformation into an instrument for advanced abstract thought. This book introduces this vibrant literature and thought via an apparent paradox. Most writers were profoundly concerned to improve life in the here-and-now - socially, politically, morally, spiritually. Yet they often tried to do so by making detours, in their writing, to other times and places: antiquity; heaven and hell; the hidden recesses of Nature, the cosmos, or the future; the remote location of an absent loved one; the newly 'discovered' Americas.The point was to show readers that the only way to live in the here-and-now was to connect it to larger realities - cosmic, spiritual, and historical.
Author: Victor E Graham
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1964-12-15
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1487597754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this anthology an effort has been made to include representative selections from the most significant sixteenth-century French poets. With the exception if a few longer works (mainly those of Ronsard, Du Bartas, and D'Aubigné), poems are given complete. In addition, the original spelling and punctuation have been retained as far as possible, except for the usual editorial modifications (differentiation of u and v, i and j, the addition of accents à, où, replacement of & by et, and so on). The sixteenth century is a period of tremendous poetic activity. It is a period closer in spirit to us in many ways than the intervening centuries, particularly the seventeenth and the eighteenth. Its poetry is still being rediscovered and re-assessed in a way that is just as exciting as the period of foment during which it was written.
Author: Michio Peter Hagiwara
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-12-03
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 3111341291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo detailed description available for "French epic poetry in the sixteenth century".
Author: Sydney John Holyoake
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Published: 1972
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joachim Du Bellay
Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780772720214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Minta
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780719006760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hazel Smith
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780853237952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to introduce the modern student to readings of French Renaissance literature, drawing on the perspectives of contemporary literary theories. The volume is organized by paired readings of five major sixteenth-century French writers, with interpretations covering, among others, structuralism, semiotics, feminism and psychoanalysis. Linking these interpretations is a constant interest in problems such as the role of the reader, the nature of the text and the question of gender. The Introduction contextualizes the encounter between literary theory and Renaissance texts by using the contributions as pivotal points in the development of critical thinking about this period in early modern literature. All foreign language quotations are translated into English, and the book is intended to be of practical interest to a wide range of readers, from modern linguists to those studying critical theory, comparative literature or cultural history.
Author: Michio P. Hagiwara
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 439
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