Love Aesthetics of Maurice Sceve - Poetry and Struggle

Klappentext This book reassesses the love poetry of Maurice Sc ve from a phenomenological viewpoint. Zusammenfassung This book reassesses the love poetry of Maurice Scève from a phenomenological viewpoint. It calls into question the traditional critical view of Scève as a poet consumed by the anguish and darkness of unrequited love, and frustrated by poetic and erotic quests which lead him nowhere. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The problem of the dark side of a love poet: an introduction and reassessment; 2. In search of love's epistemology: affirming the role of the creative imagination; 3. Embodying the sacred and ineffable: poetic forms of transcendence and paradise; 4. Becoming what one sees: the unity and identity of poetic self; 5. Struggle, light, and love's 'sainct lieu'; 6. 'De mes trauaulx me bienheurantz ma peine': love poetry as therapy; Epilogue: Scève, Mallarmé, and the art of transcendence; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Nash Jerry C., Jerry C. Nash
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2006
• EAN: 9780521025621
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02562-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies