04074nam 2200601 450 991079096300332120230803220825.01-4725-2136-61-4725-2135-8(CKB)2550000001194532(EBL)1609880(SSID)ssj0001161039(PQKBManifestationID)11690768(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001161039(PQKBWorkID)11126624(PQKB)11182762(MiAaPQ)EBC1609880(Au-PeEL)EBL1609880(CaPaEBR)ebr10831856(CaONFJC)MIL603505(OCoLC)870245556(EXLCZ)99255000000119453220140208h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIntroduction to sixteenth-century French literature and thought other times, other places /Neil KennyLondon, [England] ;New York, New York :Bloomsbury,2014.©20141 online resource (193 pages)New Readings SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-7156-3487-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Reigns; 1. Other Times, Other Places; 2. The Ancient Past in the Present: Humanism (i); 2.1. Antiquity reborn?; 2.2. Why look back?; 2.2.1. Humanism and the monarchy; 2.2.2. The gentry, male and female; 3. The Ancient Past in the Present: Humanism (ii); 3.1. Five ways to become more human; 3.1.1. Grammar; 3.1.2. Rhetoric; 3.1.3. Poetry; 3.1.4. History; 3.1.5. Moral philosophy; 3.2. Don't look back? Michel de Montaigne (Essais); 4. 'My thoughts were elsewhere': Religion; 4.1. Traditional Catholics and the 'other world'4.2. Reformers and the 'other world'4.2.1. Jean Calvin; 4.2.2. Théodore de Bèze, Abraham sacrifiant; 4.2.3. The Wars of Religion and Agrippa D'Aubigné, Les Tragiques; 4.2.4. Marguerite de Navarre, L'Heptaméron; 5. 'When I'm absent from you ...': Lovers and Others; 5.1. Male-authored love poetry; 5.1.1. Maurice Scève, Délie; 5.2. Women on love; 5.2.1. Louise Labé; 5.2.2. Helisenne de Crenne; 6. 'Until I ... go to see that beautiful place': Hidden Recesses of Nature, the Cosmos, the Future; 6.1. Elements, humours, soul, planets; 6.2. Occult philosophy: magic, astrology, divination6.3. Writing in French: the example of divination6.4. Philosophical poetry; 6.4.1. Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas, La Sepmaine; 7. 'Our world has just discovered another one': Clashing Continents; 7.1. 'Our world ...': Frenchness in flux; 7.2. '... another one': The Americas; 8. Conclusion: Lost Worlds?; Glossary of Writers and Texts; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; Y; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; ZThe age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe's greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne's Essays , Rabelais' comic fictions, Ronsard's poetry, Calvin's theology. These and numerous other extraordinary writings emerged from and contributed to cultural upheavals: the movement usually known as the Renaissance, which sought to revive ancient Greek and Roman culture for present-day purposes; religious reform, including the previously unthinkable rejection of Catholicism by many in the Reformation, culminating in decades of civil waNew Readings SeriesFrench literature16th centuryHistory and criticismFranceIntellectual life16th centuryFrench literatureHistory and criticism.840.9003Kenny Neil1121699MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790963003321Introduction to sixteenth-century French literature and thought3693363UNINA