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Autore |
Giordano Michael J. |
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The art of meditation and the French Renaissance love lyric : the poetics of introspection in Maurice Scève's Délie, object de plus haulte vertu (1544) / / Michael J. Giordano |
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Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (695 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Meditation in literature |
Introspection in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1 Two Models of Meditation for Delie: Ignatius's Spiritual Exercises and Augustine's Confessions -- 2 Meditative Praxis and the Tensions of Transvaluation -- 3 Lyric Dispossession and the Powers of Enigma -- 4 The Triple Way -- 5 Via purgativa -- 6 Via illuminativa -- 7 Via unitiva -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Joannes Mauburnus, Scala Meditatoria -- Appendix 2 Augustine, Confessions, X: 30 -- Appendix 3 Intersections of Illustrations and Dizains: Translation of Mottoes. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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At their core, most amatory lyrics involve a triple relation among lover, beloved, and the meaning of love. Whether the poet-lover is a man or woman, poetic discourse generally takes the form of an interior monologue frequently intermingled with direct and indirect address to the beloved. Though the dominant quality of this lyric is personal introspection, Michael Giordano finds Delie to be consistent with traditions of Christian meditation. He argues that the amatory lyric served as a vehicle for contests of value and paradigm change not only because it was conditioned both by sacred and profane sources, but also because it occurred at a time of religious upheaval and scientific revolution."--Jacket. |
"The Art of Meditation and the French Renaissance Love Lyric examines the poetics of meditation in the French love lyric at the height of the |
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