Author: Isidore SilverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France: pt.1. Ronsard and the Grecian lyre
Author: Isidore SilverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France: pt. 1-3. Ronsard and the Grecian lyre
Author: Isidore SilverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France
Author: Isidore SilverThe Classical Heritage in France
Author: Gerald N. SandyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004119161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
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
Author: Nicolas RussellPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644531348
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book proposes that in a number of French Renaissance texts, produced in varying contexts and genres, 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 traditional discourses on the human faculty of memory. Throughout Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages, a number of influential authors described memory as a powerful tool used to engage important human concerns such as spirituality, knowledge, politics, and ethics. This tradition had great esteem for memory and made great efforts to cultivate it in their pedagogical programs. In the early sixteenth century, this attitude toward memory started to be widely questioned. The invention of the printing press and the early stages of the scientific revolution changed the intellectual landscape in ways that would make memory less important in intellectual endeavors. Sixteenth-century writers began to question the reliability and stability of memory. They became wary of this mental faculty, which they portrayed as stubbornly independent, mysterious, unruly, and uncontrollable–an attitude that became the norm in modern Western thought as is illustrated by the works of Descartes, Locke, Freud, Proust, Foucault, and Nora, for example. Writing in this new intellectual landscape, Marguerite de Navarre, Ronsard, and Montaigne describe memory not as a powerful tool of the intellect but rather as an uncontrollable mental faculty that mirrored the uncertainty of human life. Their characterization of memory emerges from an engagement with a number of traditional ideas about memory. Notwithstanding the great many differences in concerns of these writers and in the nature of their texts, they react against or transform their classical and medieval models in similar ways. They focus on memory’s unruly side, the ways that memory functions independently of the will. They associate memory with the fluctuations of the body (the organic soul) rather than the stability of the mind (the intellectual soul). In their descriptions of memory, these authors both reflect and contribute to a modern understanding of and attitude towards this mental faculty. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Polemic and Literature Surrounding the French Wars of Religion
Author: Jeff KendrickPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501513516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Polemic and Literature Surrounding the French Wars of Religion demonstrates that literature and polemic interacted constantly in sixteenth-century France, constructing ideological frameworks that defined the various groups to which individuals belonged and through which they defined their identities. Contributions explore both literary texts (prose, poetry, and theater) and more intentionally polemical texts that fall outside of the traditional literary genres. Engaging the continuous casting and recasting of opposing worldviews, this collection of essays examines literature's use of polemic and polemic's use of literature as seminal intellectual developments stemming from the religious and social turmoil that characterized this period in France.
A Crtitical Bibliography of French Literature V2 16th C
Author: Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France: Ronsard and the Grecian lyre
Author: Isidore SilverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Law and the Song
Author: Ehsan AhmedPublisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9781883479190
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France: Ronsard and the Grecian lyre (3 v.)
Author: Isidore SilverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description