The Art of Meditation and the French Renaissance Love Lyric: The Poetics of Introspection in Maurice Scève's Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu (1544)
Michael Giordano
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hardcover. The Art of Meditation and the French Renaissance Love Lyric examines the poetics of meditation in the French love lyric at the height of the Lyonnais Renaissance as illustrated by one of the country's most prominent writers. Num Pages: 1056 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1060.
The Art of Meditation and the French Renaissance Love Lyric examines the poetics of meditation in the French love lyric at the height of the Lyonnais Renaissance as illustrated by one of the country's most prominent writers. Maurice Scève's Délie is the first French sequence of poems devoted to a single woman in the manner of Petrarch's Rime. It is also the first Renaissance work to use emblems in a sustained work on love.
At their core, most amatory lyrics involve a triple relation among lover, beloved, and the meaning of love. Whether the poet-lover is a man or woman, ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
1056
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1056
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802099464
SKU
V9780802099464
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About Michael Giordano
Michael Giordano is a professor of French in the Department of Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University.
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