The Gallo-Roman Muse
Aspects of Roman Literary Tradition in Sixteenth-Century France
Dorothy Gabe Coleman(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 20. September 1979
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-521-22254-9 (ISBN)
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Description
It is well known in a general way that sixteenth-century French literature looked for its models towards Greece and Rome, but the topic is usually left there. This 1979 book begins with a reassessment of the original meaning and use of the work of Roman rhetoricians. It also identifies certain specific values or canons implicit in the actual texture of Latin poetry, and shows how these transformed French rhetorical theory and inaugurated the line of French poetry from Sceve to Valery. Mrs Coleman examines, both in general and in the work of Sceve, Ronsard, Du Bellay and Montaigne, in particular, the way in which Roman values were recreated in the new language and the new literary forms. Scholars interested in the survival or prolongation of the classical tradition will be interested, and so, of course, will specialists in French and Renaissance literary studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-22254-9 (9780521222549)
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Aspects of Roman Literary Tradition in Sixteenth-Century France
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Dorothy Gabe Coleman
The Gallo-Roman Muse
Aspects of Roman Literary Tradition in Sixteenth-Century France
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03/2012
Cambridge University Press
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Content
1. Introduction; 2. Roman writers and the sixteenth century: a re-evaluation; 3. Roman aesthetic values; 4. The establishment of the grand style in poetry; 5. Sceve, Ronsard and Du Bellay: allusiveness; 6. Montaigne and Rome; 7. An essay in re-creation; 8. Roman values in Montaigne; 9. Conclusion; Select bibliography.