Devotional Poetry in France c. 1570-1613 - Couverture souple

Cave, Terence

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521113458 ISBN 13 : 9780521113458

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Dr Cave studies the relationship between the traditions of personal devotion in sixteenth-century France and the poetry which flourished at the end of the century and the beginning of the seventeenth. It was a poetry of intense personal commitment, preoccupied with penitence and confession, the vanity of life, the imminence of death, the meaning of the Incarnation and the Passion; often verging on mysticism and mingling of the sensual, the intellectual and the spiritual in a manner often thought typical of the baroque. It was part of a European movement, and there is much here to interest the student of the early seventeenth-century sensibility. A comparable book on English literature is Louis Martz's The Poetry of Meditation, but the lines of Dr Cave's enquiry are new. The book has a fourfold interest: to readers concerned with French literature; to those with particular interest in the traditions of devotion; to those concerned with comparative studies in the baroque period, and to students of rhetorical analysis.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521113458
• ISBN 13: 9780521113458
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 376