Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing

ISBN-13: 9780198831709 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Jennifer H. Oliver

Opis

Jennifer H. Oliver explores the extent to which depictions of the ship in sixteenth century France are freighted with political, religious, and poetic symbolism. She examines the ways in which the ship and the body are made analogous in Renaissance shipwreck writing.

O autorze

Jennifer Oliver is Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in French at St John's College, Oxford. Her research is centred on sixteenth-century French literature, culture, and thought. Her next project examines how French writers of the sixteenth century contemplated the connections and tensions between poetics, technology, and the natural environment.