Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance
French Love Lyric and Natural-philosophical Poetry
Published on 5. July 2017
200 pages
978-1-351-57091-6 (ISBN)
Description
Renaissance images could be real as well as linguistic. Human beings were often believed to be an image of the cosmos, and the sun an image of God. Kathryn Banks explores the implications of this for poetic language and argues that linguistic images were a powerful tool for rethinking cosmic conceptions. She reassesses the role of natural-philosophical poetry in France, focusing upon its most well-known and widely-read exponent, Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas.Through a sustained analysis of Maurice Sceve's Delie , Banks also rethinks love lyric's oft-noted use of the beloved as image of the poet. Cosmos and Image makes an original contribution to our understanding of Renaissance thinking about the cosmic, the human, and the divine. It also proposes a mode of reading other Renaissance texts, and reflects at length upon the relation of 'literature' to history, to the history of science, and to political turmoil.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
3,67 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-57091-6 (9781351570916)
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Content
Introduction: The Cosmos, Images, and Poetry Part I: The Cosmos in Du Bartas's Sepmaine: Images of God and of War 1. Poetry and Theology: Images of the Divine 2. Poetry and Natural Philosophy: Images of the Cosmic Part II: Images, Divinity, and Difference in Maurice Sceve'S Delie 3. Illumination and Darkness: The Lunar, Solar, and Divine Lady 4. Redemption and Rejection: Love Lyric and the Unloving Divine 5. Conclusion
