Author: Irene May BergalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Helisenne de Crenne. A Sixteenth Century French Novelist
Author: Irene May BergalHélisenne de Crenne
Author: Diane S. WoodPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838638569
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Helisenne de Crenne: At the Crossroads of Renaissance Humanism and Feminism examines the writings of this sixteenth-century French author in light of modern critical theory."--BOOK JACKET.
The Motif of Renunciation of Love in the Seventeenth Century French Novel
Author: Jeannine SassusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers
Author: Katharina M. WilsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780824085476
Category : European literature
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions
Author: Alberto J. Quiroga PuertasPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350281638
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Focusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and contemporary narrative fiction from Jo Walton and L. Sprague De Camp to T. S. Chaudhry and Catherynne M. Valente. Chapters look into the question of chance versus determinism in the unfolding of historical events, the role individuals play in shaping a society or occasion, and the way art and literature symbolise important messages in counterfactual histories. They also show how uchronic narratives can take advantage of modern literary techniques to reveal new and relevant aspects of the past, giving voices to marginalised minorities and suppressed individuals of the ancient world. Counterfactual fiction and uchronic narratives have been largely up until now the domain of literary critics. However, these modes of literature are here analysed by scholars of Ancient History, Egyptology and Classics, shedding important new light on how cultures of the ancient world have been (and still are) perceived, and to what extent our conceptions of the past are used to explore alternate presents and futures. Alternate history entices the imagination of the public by suggesting hypothetical scenarios that never occurred, underlining a latent tension between reality and imagination, and between determinism and contingency. This interest has resulted in a growing number of publications that gauge the impact of what-if narratives, and this one is the first to give scholars of the ancient world centre-stage.
Classical Reception
Author: Anastasia BakogianniPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311077383X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
In a time of acute crisis when our societies face a complex series of challenges (race, gender, inclusivity, changing pedagogical needs and a global pandemic) we urgently need to re-access the nature of our engagement with the Classical World. This edited collection argues that we need to discover new ways to draw on our discipline and the material it studies to engage in meaningful ways with these new academic and societal challenges. The chapters included in the collection interrogate the very processes of reception and continue the work of destabilising the concept of a pure source text or point of origin. Our aim is to break through the boundaries that still divide our ancient texts and material culture from their reception, and interpretive communities. Our contributors engage with these questions theoretically and/or through the close examination of cultural artefacts. They problematise the concept of a Western, elitist canon and actively push the geographical boundaries of reception as both a local and a global phenomenon. Individually and cumulatively, they actively engage with the question of how to marshal the classical past in our efforts to respond to the challenges of our mutable contemporary world.
An Introduction to 16th-century French Literature and Thought
Author: Neil KennyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472521358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The 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.
Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women
Author: Colette H. WinnPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317944585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
An Introduction to 16th-century French Literature and Thought
Author: Neil KennyPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472521366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The 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.
The Torments of Love
Author: Hélisenne de CrennePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452900667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description