Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing

Klappentext This book studies the importance of typographic shapes in French Renaissance literature in the context of psychoanalysis and of the history of printed writing. Zusammenfassung This 1992 book studies the importance of typographic shapes in French Renaissance literature in the context of psychoanalysis and of the history of printed writing.This book studies the importance of typographic shapes in French Renaissance literature in the context of psychoanalysis and of the history of printed writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A secret space: Marot's Rondeaux; 2. The Rabelaisian hieroglyph; 3. Ronsard's sonnet-pictures; 4. The turn of the letter: from Cassandre to Hélène; 5. Montaigne's test of style: De l'exercitation; 6. A colossal abyss: Des coches; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Tom Conley, Conley Tom
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.2006
• EAN: 9780521032223
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03222-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies