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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Nash Jerry C., Jerry C. Nash, Nash Jerry C.
• Collaboration: Michael Sheringham (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 20.04.2006
• EAN: 9780521025621
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02562-1
• Pages: 224
• Thèmes: Cambridge Studies in French; Cambridge Studies in French
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets