Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne

ISBN-13: 9781107526990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 226 str.

Ullrich Langer

Opis

A wide-ranging study of the lyric as a literary genre in Renaissance Europe, by a leading scholar of the period.

Recenzje

'… a rhetorically meticulous reading, historically informed without being historicizing, showing how a few carefully deployed rhetorical devices produce the startling affective jolts, the impression of wrenching selfhood and inexplicable, inexpiable yearnings that this poetry can still call forth.' William N. West, Modern Philology

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Petrarch and the existential singular; 3. Minimal lost worlds: the rondeaux of Charles d'Orléans; 4. Ronsard's singular erotic reciprocity (Les Amours de Cassandre); 5. Singularity as emptiness: Du Bellay's Regrets; 6. Montaigne and his 'sublime' lyric; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography.