Higher, Hidden Order - Design and Meaning in the Odes of Malherbe

Klappentext Opening a new perspective on Malherbe's major poems, this volume focuses on their design and meaning. In his introduction, Rubin defines and illustrates "implied comparison." There follows a series of explications which recover each poem's values from analogies concealed in images or motif patterns. The work concludes with a description of formal constants and variables in the six completed odes. Zusammenfassung Opening a new perspective on Malherbe's major poems! this volume focuses on their design and meaning. In his introduction Rubin defines and illustrates implied comparison. There follows a series of explications which recover each poem's values from analogies concealed in images or motif patterns. The work concludes with a description of formal constants and variables in the six completed odes.

Product details

• Authors: David Lee Rubin
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780807891179
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-9117-9
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures; North Carolina Studies in the; North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies