Pilgrimage and Narrative in the French Renaissance - The Undiscovered Country''

Zusatztext Insightful and extended study ... wide-ranging and subtle study of the rhetorical dimensions of pligrimage ... admirably erudite ... positively original. Klappentext This is the first full-length study of the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. It makes new material available and also provides fresh perspectives on canonical writers such as Montaigne, Erasmus, Petrarch, Augustine, and Gregory of Nyssa. This wide-ranging and timely new work aims to question the ways in which recent theoretical and historical research in the area has determined the differences between fictional worlds and the real. Zusammenfassung This is the first full-length study of the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. It makes new material available and also provides fresh perspectives on canonical writers such as Rabelais, Montaigne, Margurite de Navarre, Erasmus, Petrarch, Augustine, and Gregory of Nyssa. Wes Williams undertakes a bold exploration of various interlinking themes in Renaissance pilgrimage: the location, representation, and politics of the sacred, together with the experience of the everyday, the extraordinary, the religious, and the represented. Williams also examines the literary formation of the subjective narrative voice in his texts, and its relationship to the rituals and practices he reviews. This wide-ranging and timely new work aims both to gain a sense of the shapes of pilgrim experience in the Renaissance and to question the ways in which recent theoretical and historical research in the area has determined the differences between fictional worlds and the real. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Coming to Terms: The Subject of Pilgrimage [Renaissance dialogues, guides to pilgrimage, arguments against it] Part II: Being There: The Experience of Pilgrimage [narratives of pilgrimage] Part III: Forms of Return: The Afterlife of Pilgrimage [Columbus and others; pilgrims' fantasies and fears, professional pilgrims] Conclusion Bibliography Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Wes Williams, Wes (Tutor in French and Fellow Williams, Williams Wes
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.1998
• EAN: 9780198159407
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815940-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; French, Cultural Studies, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / General, Christianity, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Christian worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599