Epic Arts in Renaissance France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Epic Arts in Renaissance France write by Phillip John Usher. This book was released on 2013-12-05. Epic Arts in Renaissance France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Epic Arts in Renaissance France studies the relationship between epic literature and other art forms such as painting, sculpture, and architecture. Why, the book asks, the epic heroes and themes so ubiquitous in French Renaissance art are widely celebrated whereas the same period's literary epics, frequently maligned, now go unread? To explore this paradox, the book investigates a number of epic building sites, i.e. specific situations in which literary epics either become the basis for realisations in other art forms or somehow contest or compete with them. Beginning with a detour about the appearance of epic heroes (Odysseus and Aeneas) on marriage chests in fifteenth-century Florence, the study traces how French communities of readers, writers, translators, and artists reinvent epic forms in their own—or their patron's—image. Following extended discussion of three galleries in different regions of France, which all depicted key scenes from the classical epics of Homer, Virgil, and Lucan, the book turns to epics written in the period. Chapters of Epic Arts focus on Etienne Dolet's Fata, which praise the victories (but also failures) of François Ier in ways that make it both a continuum of Fontainebleau and a response to the celebration of French defeat in foreign paintings; on Ronsard's Franciade, whose muse was depicted on the façade of the Louvre and whose story was eventually taken up in a long series of paintings by Toussaint Dubreuil; and on Agrippa d'Aubigné's Protestant Tragiques, which allude to, and frequently function as graffiti over, Catholic works of art in Paris and Rome. Situated at the frontier of literary criticism and art history, Epic Arts in Renaissance France is a compelling call for a revaluation of French epic literature and indeed of how we read.
Epic Arts in Renaissance France
Epic Arts in Renaissance France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Epic Arts in Renaissance France write by Phillip John Usher. This book was released on 2014. Epic Arts in Renaissance France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Epic Arts in Renaissance France' examines the relationship between art and literature in 16th-century France, and considers how the epic genre became 'public' via realisations in various other art forms.
Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature
Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature write by Jeff Persels. This book was released on 2017-11-01. Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature brings together a full score of essays by established and rising American-based scholars of the early modern. Arranged according to five themes or genres: Tales and their Tellers, Poets and Poetry, Religious Controversy, Montaigne, and Knowledge Networks, they offer both fresh perspectives on canonical authors such as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as original interpretations of less familiar works of sixteenth-century moment: confessional polemics, emblems, cartography, geomancy, epigraphy, bibliophilism and even ichthyology. Inspired by and gathered together here to honor the eclectic career of Mary B. McKinley, this anthology integrates many of the most pertinent topics and contemporary approaches of early modern French scholarly inquiry. Contributors are: Pascale Barthe, Leah L. Chang, Edwin M. Duval, Gary Ferguson, George Hoffmann, Robert J. Hudson, Karen Simroth James, Scott D. Juall, Virginia Krause, Kathleen Long, Stephen Murphy, Corinne Noirot, Jeff Persels, Bernd Renner, Nicolas Russell, Nicholas Shangler, Cynthia Skenazi, Kendall Tarte, Cara Welch, and Cathy Yandell.
Polemic and Literature Surrounding the French Wars of Religion
Polemic and Literature Surrounding the French Wars of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Polemic and Literature Surrounding the French Wars of Religion write by Jeff Kendrick. This book was released on 2019-09-23. Polemic and Literature Surrounding the French Wars of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance
Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance write by Phillip John Usher. This book was released on 2012. Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Virgil's works, principally the Bucolics, the Georgics, and above all the Aeneid, were frequently read, translated and rewritten by authors of the French Renaissance. The contributors to this volume show how readers and writers entered into a dialogue with the texts, using them to grapple with such difficult questions as authorial, political and communitarian identities. It is demonstrated how Virgil's works are more than Ancient models to be imitated. They reveal themselves, instead, to be part of a vibrant moment of exchange central to the definition of literature at the time."--Back cover.
