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Unlikely Exemplars
Joann Dellaneva
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Description for Unlikely Exemplars
Hardback. Num Pages: 444 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 168 x 32. Weight in Grams: 776.
This book explores questions of reading and writing practices in the French Renaissance. While the imitation of great masters of the past, such as Petrarch, was a staple of Renaissance poetics, French poets of the mid-1500s, including Saint-Gelais, Du Bellay, Ronsard, Baïf, and Magny, often turned to a set of unlikely exemplars: the second-rate poets published in a series of volumes known as the Italian Anthologies. Part one provides a general context for this surprising practice by examining modern and Renaissance theories of minor model imitation, Italian canon formation, the publishing of phenomenon of the anthologies and other florilegia, the ... Read more
This book explores questions of reading and writing practices in the French Renaissance. While the imitation of great masters of the past, such as Petrarch, was a staple of Renaissance poetics, French poets of the mid-1500s, including Saint-Gelais, Du Bellay, Ronsard, Baïf, and Magny, often turned to a set of unlikely exemplars: the second-rate poets published in a series of volumes known as the Italian Anthologies. Part one provides a general context for this surprising practice by examining modern and Renaissance theories of minor model imitation, Italian canon formation, the publishing of phenomenon of the anthologies and other florilegia, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
444
Condition
New
Number of Pages
444
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611491159
SKU
V9781611491159
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99-15
About Joann Dellaneva
JoAnn DellaNeva teaches at the University of Notre Dame.
Reviews for Unlikely Exemplars
Readers will learn a great deal from Unlikely Exemplars about Renaissance theories of poetic composition, publishing, and the manipulation of Italian sources by French writers of the sixteenth century.
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