Death and tenses : posthumous presence in early modern France

• Autore: Kenny Neil
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
• Disciplina: 940.2
• Soggetto topico: French literature - History and criticism - 16th century; French literature - History and criticism - 17th century; Latin literature, Medieval and modern - History and criticism; Death in literature - Tense; Grammar, Comparative and general; French Literature; Romance Literatures; Languages & Literatures
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: List of illustrations -- Abbreviations: tense-forms -- Note on translation, style, and references. Introduction: inescapable tense. 1 Tense, death, survival : Modern tenses for the dead: towards a sketch -- The historiographical regime of disentanglement -- Surviving death in the early modern period -- Early modern tenses for the dead : The perfectum -- time and tense -- perfectivity, imperfectivity, and the problem of perfectal meaning -- The passé simple and the passé composé -- Patterns of usage. 2 Dying, burying, mourning: tense and ritual : Tense and ritual -- Christ, the saints, meditation -- The Eucharist -- From funeral sermon to coronation -- Epitaphs -- Consolation literature. 3 Discursive remains : Actions: Exemplarity -- History -- The will to write and give: postmortem continuations -- Spoken words -- Written words : Ancients -- Moderns. 4 Authors : Rabelais - Montaigne. Conclusion: breaking through? Bibliography : Pre-1711 works -- Post-1710 works. Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Death and Tenses' explores the question of what tense we should use to refer to the dead. Focusing on 16th and early 17th century texts in French and Latin, it compares early modern examples with modern French and English, asking whether changes in more recent beliefs in posthumous survival have led to different tense usage.
• Titolo autorizzato: Death and tenses : posthumous presence in early modern France
• ISBN: 0-19-181578-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910157834603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II