Poetry and Fable

Studies in Mythological Narrative in Sixteenth-Century France

By:

Ann Moss

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Series:

Cambridge Studies in French

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This book is a major study of the development of French poetry in the Renaissance, which examines changes in style and vision by looking both at how poetry was read in this period and how it was written. Dr Moss examines vernacular versions of fables from Ovid's Metamorphoses, published between the end of the fifteenth century and beginning of the seventeenth century, which reveal fundamental changes both in reading habits and in assumptions about literary aesthetics and the relationship of literature to truth. Through detailed analysis of mythological narratives in the Ovidian tradition composed by Lemaire de Beiges, Francois Habert, Baif and Ronsard, among others, and by concentrating on a few specific mythological subjects Dr Moss is able to identify the salient features in these developments and so broaden our understanding of the aesthetic revolution which transformed the literature and mentality of France and Western Europe during the Renaissance.

Release date NZ

June 11th, 2009

Author

Ann Moss

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

196

Series

Cambridge Studies in French

Dimensions

152x229x1

ISBN-13

9780521112147

Product ID

3069174

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