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Book Three Ronsard Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Isidore Silver
  • Publisher : Librairie Droz
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN : 9782600039093
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Three Ronsard Studies written by Isidore Silver and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1978 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France

Download or read book Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France written by Isidore Silver and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1981 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yale French Studies  Number 134

Download or read book Yale French Studies Number 134 written by Jessica Devos and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume of Yale French Studies both honors and adds to Edwin M. Duval's scholarship on the history and development of French Renaissance literature. Edwin (Ned) M. Duval's scholarship focuses on teasing out hidden structures and symmetries in the poetry and prose of the French Renaissance, a period when literature underwent radical changes. In honor of Duval's literary "sleuthing," the contributors in this issue explore the symmetries, as well as the dissymmetries, the fragility, ambiguities, and contradictions of French Renaissance literary production. This volume addresses evolving literary practices, innovations in genre, and intellectual developments in sixteenth-century France.

Book Ronsard s Philosophic Thought

    Book Details:
  • Author : Isidore Silver
  • Publisher : Librairie Droz
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9782600031806
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Ronsard s Philosophic Thought written by Isidore Silver and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Myth of Sisyphus

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  • Author : Elliott M. Simon
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780838641163
  • Pages : 622 pages

Download or read book The Myth of Sisyphus written by Elliott M. Simon and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The myth of Sisyphus symbolizes the archetypal process of becoming without the consolation of absolute achievement. It is both a poignant reflection of the human condition and a prominent framing text for classical, medieval, and renaissance theories of human perfectibility. In this unique reading of the myth through classical philosophies, pagan and Christian religious doctrines, and medieval and renaissance literature, we see Sisyphus, "the most cunning of human beings," attempting to transcend his imperfections empowered by his imagination to renew his faith in the infinite potentialities of human excellence."--BOOK JACKET

Book Renaissance Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Malcolm Smith
  • Publisher : Librairie Droz
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9782600002813
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Renaissance Studies written by Malcolm Smith and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1999 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les articles de Malcolm Smith sur la littérature française de la Renaissance, études qui n'ont jamais négligé les dimensions polémiques et religieuses.

Book A Crtitical Bibliography of French Literature V2 16th C

Download or read book A Crtitical Bibliography of French Literature V2 16th C written by and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Erotics of Materialism

Download or read book The Erotics of Materialism written by Jessie Hock and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Erotics of Materialism, Jessie Hock maps the intersection of poetry and natural philosophy in the early modern reception of Lucretius and his De rerum natura. Subtly revising an ancient atomist tradition that condemned poetry as frivolous, Lucretius asserted a central role for verse in the practice of natural philosophy and gave the figurative realm a powerful claim on the real by maintaining that mental and poetic images have material substance and a presence beyond the mind or page. Attending to Lucretius's own emphasis on poetry, Hock shows that early modern readers and writers were alert to the fact that Lucretian materialism entails a theory of the imagination and, ultimately, a poetics, which they were quick to absorb and adapt to their own uses. Focusing on the work of Pierre de Ronsard, Remy Belleau, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and Margaret Cavendish, The Erotics of Materialism demonstrates how these poets drew on Lucretius to explore poetry's power to act in the world. Hock argues that even as classical atomist ideas contributed to the rise of empirical scientific methodologies that downgraded the capacity of the human imagination to explain material phenomena, Lucretian poetics came to stand for a poetry that gives the imagination a purchase on the real, from the practice of natural philosophy to that of politics. In her reading of Lucretian influence, Hock reveals how early modern poets were invested in what Lucretius posits as the materiality of fantasy and his expression of it in a language of desire, sex, and love. For early modern poets, Lucretian eroticism was poetic method, and De rerum natura a treatise on the poetic imagination, initiating an atomist genealogy at the heart of the lyric tradition.

Book Selected Poems

    Book Details:
  • Author : Du Bellay
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023-07-11
  • ISBN : 019266378X
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Selected Poems written by Du Bellay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Live now and listen, do not wait in vain Until tomorrow; pluck life's rose today.' Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard are two of the major sixteenth-century French poets and leaders of the extraordinary group known as 'La Pl?iade'. Determined to create a national vernacular literature, the Pl?iade poets profited from an intense study of Greek and Roman models and from a creative use of classical mythology to produce a body of verse that reflects the vigour and variety of European Renaissance culture. Du Bellay broke new ground with the gritty realism and resentment of the Regrets and with his meditation in the Antiquities on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. In a series of sonnet sequences (Cassandre, Marie, Astr?e, H?l?ne) Ronsard developed the Petrarchan tradition of love poetry with a wider range of situations, a richer imagery, and more robust sensuality. His reputation as France's greatest love-poet should not, however, obscure his excellence in an astonishing variety of forms and genres such as elegies, odes, philosophical hymns, and religious controversy. Anthony Mortimer's verse translations cover this many-faceted achievement in a version that functions as English poetry in its own right without departing from the letter and spirit of the original. The French text is given on facing pages and a useful appendix contains extracts from seminal manifestos by the two poets. A critical introduction, a glossary of names and places, and abundant notes encourage the reader to place the poems in their social and cultural context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe written by Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French poets Ronsard and Du Bartas enjoyed a wide but varied reception throughout early modern Europe. This volume is the first book length monograph to study the transnational reception histories of both poets in conjunction with each other.

Book The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance

Download or read book The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance written by Katherine Crawford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how Renaissance textual practices and new forms of knowledge transformed notions of sex and sexuality in France.

Book Retrospectives

Download or read book Retrospectives written by Neil Kenny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Terence Cave's work has made a major contribution to the rethinking of the relationship between literature, history and culture over the last half-century. Retrospectives brings together substantially revised versions of studies written since 1970: together they constitute a searching methodological investigation of the practice of reading past texts. How do our ways of reading such texts compare with those practised in the periods when they were written? How do we distinguish between what a text meant in its own time and what it has come to mean over time? And how might reading provide access to past experiences? The book's epicentre is early modern French culture, but it extends to that culture's ancient Greek and Roman models, its European contexts, and the afterlives of some of its themes, from Pascal via George Eliot to Angela Carter."

Book The French Review

Download or read book The French Review written by James Frederick Mason and published by . This book was released on with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eros et Priapus

Download or read book Eros et Priapus written by Ingrid de Smet and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les humanistes et les poètes de la Renaissance s'approprient le discours érotique de l'Antiquité pour le transformer en une érotologie littéraire et artistique. Issus d'un colloque (Cambridge 1995), ces essais cherchent à relancer le débat sur le traitement de l'érotisme, de ses images et de ses lieux communs, de l'admiration quasi platonicienne à l'obscénité.