The sixteenth century in France was marked by religious warfare and shifting political and physical landscapes. Between 1549 and 1584, however, the Pleiade poets, including Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim Du Bellay, Remy Belleau, and Antoine de Baif, produced some of the most abiding and irenic depictions of rural French landscapes ever written. In The Poetry of Place, Louisa Mackenzie reveals and analyzes the cultural history of French paysage through her study of lyric poetry and its connections with landscape painting, cartography, and land use history.
In the face of...
The sixteenth century in France was marked by religious warfare and shifting political and physical landscapes. Between 1549 and 1584, however, the...
Bringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States, "French Thinking about Animals" makes available for the first time to an Anglophone readership a rich variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the animal question in France. While the work of French thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari has been available in English for many years, "French Thinking about Animals" opens up a much broader cross-cultural dialogue within animal studies. These original essays, many of which have been translated especially for this volume, draw...
Bringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States, "French Thinking about Animals" makes available for the first ...
