In Defense Of French Poetry
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Author | : William Calin |
Publisher | : University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
The vast majority of books on French verse, published in France, present a Romantic or post-Romantic notion of the nature of poetry: a view of the poem as a brief lyric distinguished by concrete, striking imagery which expresses the sincere feelings of the poet. The poet discovers therein, and transmits to his reader, universal secrets. Yet prior to this "modern view" is another tradition that poems can be short or long; can be narrative, didactic, satirical, and meditative as well as lyrical; can express universal truths, not the individual voice; and that to do so they adhere to time-honored genres, modes, and levels of style. But contemporary critics and criticism ignore this latter tradition. They are unaware of French verse prior to Lamartine or Baudelaire; or they claim that the early masters were not poets, and that poetry has only come into its own in the last 100 years. Thus they assume a canon of masterpieces that emphasizes the period from Baudelaire to Valéry. This book applies to French poetry as a whole the insights of an American medievalist: knowledge of the pre-Romantic tradition and of the contributions of Anglo-American new criticism. It revises conventional notions as to the nature of French poetry (critical theory) and the generally accepted canon of French verse (literary history).
Author | : Patrick Mcguinness |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-04-11 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1101907835 |
A beautifully jacketed hardcover collection of verse by French-speaking poets from cultures across the globe, spanning the ages from medieval to modern. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POETS. From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Aimé Césaire and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume introduction to a rich and varied tradition. Here are today’s rising stars mingling with the great writers of past centuries: La Fontaine, François Villon, Christine de Pizan, Marguerite de Navarre, Louise Labé, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, and many more. Here, too, are representatives of the modern francophone world, encompassing Lebanese, Tunisian, Senegalese, and Belgian poets, including such notable writers as Léopold Senghor, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, and Hédi Kaddour. Finally, this anthology showcases a wide range of the English language’s finest translators—including such renowned poet-translators as Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, John Ashbery, and Derek Mahon—in a dazzling tribute to the splendors of French poetry.
Author | : Joachim Du Bellay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : French language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stamos Metzidakis |
Publisher | : Summa Publications, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781883479343 |
Author | : Joachim Du Bellay |
Publisher | : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780772720214 |
Author | : Hugues Azérad |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2010-05-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521886422 |
A selection of modern French poems with critical commentary, glossary of literary terms, biographies and bibliography.
Author | : JOHN C. BAILEY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781033328354 |
Author | : Sir Philip Sidney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1595 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sylvia Huot |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2019-05-15 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1501746685 |
As the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manuscript has a theatrical, performative quality. She perceives the tension between implied oral performance and real visual artifact as a fundamental aspect of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century poetics. In this generously illustrated volume, Huot examines manuscript texts both from the performance-oriented lyric tradition of chanson courtoise, or courtly love lyric, and from the self-consciously literary tradition of Old French narrative poetry. She demonstrates that the evolution of the lyrical romance and dit, narrative poems which incorporate thematic and rhetorical elements of the lyric, was responsible for a progressive redefinition of lyric poetry as a written medium and the emergence of an explicitly written literary tradition uniting lyric and narrative poetics. Huot first investigates the nature of the vernacular book in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, analyzing organization, page layout, rubrication, and illumination in a series of manuscripts. She then describes the relationship between poetics and manuscript format in specific texts, including works by widely read medieval authors such as Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun, and Guillaume de Machaut, as well as by lesser-known writers including Nicole de Margival and Watriquet de Couvin. Huot focuses on the writers' characteristic modifications of lyric poetics; their use of writing and performance as theme; their treatment of the poet as singer or writer; and of the lady as implied reader or listener; and the ways in which these features of the text were elaborated by scribes and illuminators. Her readings reveal how medieval poets and book-makers conceived their common project, and how they distinguished their respective roles.
Author | : P. Mansell Jones |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2011-04-14 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780521133999 |
This book explores the nature of literary influence in literary creation, as well as aspects of French poetry after Baudelaire.