Author: Michio Peter Hagiwara
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111341291
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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No detailed description available for "French epic poetry in the sixteenth century".
Author: Michio P. Hagiwara
Publisher: Hague : Mouton
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Category : Epic poetry, French
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Author: Michio P. Hagiwara
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Category : Epic poetry, French
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Author: Kathleen M. Llewellyn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317065956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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Although attention to the Book of Judith and its heroine has grown in recent years, this is the first full-length study to focus on adaptations of the Bible’s Old Testament Book of Judith across a range of literary genres written in French during the early modern era. Author Kathleen Llewellyn bases her analysis on references to Judith in a number of early modern sermons as well as the ’Judith’ texts of four early modern writers. The texts include two theatrical dramas, Le Mystère de Judith et Holofernés (c. 1500), believed to have been written by Jean Molinet, and Le Miroir des vefves: Tragédie sacrée d'Holoferne & Judith by Pierre Heyns (1596), as well as two epic poems, La Judit (1574) by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, and Gabrielle de Coignard’s Imitation de la victoire de Judich (1594). Llewellyn’s goal is to see Judith as she was envisioned by early modern French writers and their readers, and to understand how the sixteenth century shaped their view of the heroine. Noting aspects of that story that were emphasized by sixteenth-century authors, as well as elements that those writers altered to suit their purposes, she also examines the ways in which writers of this era made use of Judith’s story as a means to explore interests and concerns of early modern writers, readers, and spectators. Representing Judith in Early Modern French Literature provides a deeper understanding of early modern ideas regarding the role of women, the use of exemplary stories in preaching and teaching, theories of vision, and the importance of community in Renaissance France.
Author: Neil Kenny
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472521366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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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.
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Publisher: Slatkine
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Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Author: University of Pennsylvania
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Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Publisher: Syracuse University Press
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 896
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Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1614
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Author: University of Pennsylvania
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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