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Montaigne recherchait-il la solitude et l'isolement dans sa tour comme le pense toute une tradition exégétique ? Que signifie les quelques phrases suivantes : "J'achette les imprimeurs en Guienne, ailleurs ils m'achettent", "J'adjouste mais je ne corrige pas" ? George Hoffmann s'appuie exclusivement sur des faits matériels et sur une lecture très rigoureuse de ces quelques phrases qu'il resitue dans leur contexte social, économique et historique pour nous offrir une image de Montaigne complètement renouvelée. Mais ce livre dépasse le seul cas de Montaigne et propose des données essentielles pour comprendre ce qu'impliquait le choixd'entrer dans la carrière littéraire au XVIe siècle.
Montaigne, de, Michel --- Publishers and publishing --- Politics and literature --- Authors, French --- Editeurs et édition --- Politique et littérature --- Ecrivains français --- History --- Biography --- Histoire --- Biographies --- Montaigne, Michel de, --- Editeurs et édition --- Politique et littérature --- Ecrivains français --- French literature --- Philosophy --- 16th century --- Criticism
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Reforming French Culture is a ground-breaking work on the literary genre of Reformation satire -- colloquial, obscene, scatological -- designed to mock the excesses as well as the essence of the Roman Catholic rite and hierarchy. Enticingly, Hoffmann proposes that while romance, with its episodic, heroic narrative, is the literary genre of Counter-Reformation, satire is the genre of Reformation. This minor category of Renaissance French literature is an unstudied continent that plays a key role, not only in French literature, but also in French history, and in the evolution of French culture more generally. From this deceptively small focus, the volume opens up huge vistas: on the Reformation, on French history, and on the symbiosis of spirituality and estrangement to which it views modern French culture as heir. Rather than using literature to illustrate history, or contextualizing literature through historical background, this book brings literary understanding (what satire is and what it does) to bear on historical understanding. Situated at the crossroads of religion, literature, and cultural history, it explores how France, in this period, became a culturally Protestant country while remaining confessionally Catholic. --
French literature --- Littérature française --- Reformation in literature. --- Réforme --- Counter-Reformation in literature. --- Contre-Réforme et littérature. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Dans la littérature. --- Christian church history --- Thematology --- anno 1500-1599 --- Reformation in literature --- Counter-Reformation in literature --- History and criticism
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Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature brings together a full score of essays by established and rising American-based scholars of the early modern. Arranged according to five themes or genres: Tales and their Tellers, Poets and Poetry, Religious Controversy, Montaigne, and Knowledge Networks, they offer both fresh perspectives on canonical authors such as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as original interpretations of less familiar works of sixteenth-century moment: confessional polemics, emblems, cartography, geomancy, epigraphy, bibliophilism and even ichthyology. Inspired by and gathered together here to honor the eclectic career of Mary B. McKinley, this anthology integrates many of the most pertinent topics and contemporary approaches of early modern French scholarly inquiry. Contributors are: Pascale Barthe, Leah L. Chang, Edwin M. Duval, Gary Ferguson, George Hoffmann, Robert J. Hudson, Karen Simroth James, Scott D. Juall, Virginia Krause, Kathleen Long, Stephen Murphy, Corinne Noirot, Jeff Persels, Bernd Renner, Nicolas Russell, Nicholas Shangler, Cynthia Skenazi, Kendall Tarte, Cara Welch, and Cathy Yandell.
French literature --- Renaissance --- History and criticism.
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