Author: Sydney John Holyoake
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719004759
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
An Introduction to French Sixteenth Century Poetic Theory: Texts and Commentary
Author: Sydney John Holyoake
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719004759
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719004759
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
An introduction to French sixteenth century poetic theory
An Introduction to 16th-century French Literature and Thought
Author: Neil Kenny
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Sixteenth-Century French Poetry
Author: Victor E Graham
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487597754
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In 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.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487597754
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In 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.
French epic poetry in the sixteenth century
Author: Michio Peter Hagiwara
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111341291
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
No detailed description available for "French epic poetry in the sixteenth century".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111341291
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
No detailed description available for "French epic poetry in the sixteenth century".
ˆAn‰ Introduction to French 16. century poetic theory
Love Poetry in Sixteenth-century France
Author: Stephen Minta
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719006760
Category : French poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719006760
Category : French poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Poetry & Language in 16th-century France
Author: Joachim Du Bellay
Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
ISBN: 9780772720214
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
ISBN: 9780772720214
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
FRENCH EPIC POETRY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: THEORY AND PRACTICE.
Nineteenth-Century French Poetry
Author: Christopher Prendergast
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521347747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This volume of essays, written by scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints, presents a fresh approach to the study of nineteenth-century French poetry. Each of the eleven essays, on different poets from Lamartine to Mallarmé and Laforgue, focuses on the detailed organisation of a single poem. The method of close reading has been adopted in order to effect an introduction to the analysis of the 'basics' of poetic language (sound, metre, syntax, etc.), and in order to explore and illustrate some of the claims and arguments about poetry arising from developments in the prevailing literary theory. Theoretical positions are posed and tested in the terms of practical analysis and interpretation. Christopher Prendergast's introduction to the volume situates the essays in a series of general perspectives and contexts, and Clive Scott has provided an appendix on French versification.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521347747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This volume of essays, written by scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints, presents a fresh approach to the study of nineteenth-century French poetry. Each of the eleven essays, on different poets from Lamartine to Mallarmé and Laforgue, focuses on the detailed organisation of a single poem. The method of close reading has been adopted in order to effect an introduction to the analysis of the 'basics' of poetic language (sound, metre, syntax, etc.), and in order to explore and illustrate some of the claims and arguments about poetry arising from developments in the prevailing literary theory. Theoretical positions are posed and tested in the terms of practical analysis and interpretation. Christopher Prendergast's introduction to the volume situates the essays in a series of general perspectives and contexts, and Clive Scott has provided an appendix on French versification.