| Description |
1 online resource (192 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
New readings
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New readings (London, England)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The ancient past in the present : humanism (i) -- The ancient past in the present : humanism (ii) -- "My thoughts were elsewhere" : religion -- "When I'm absent from you" : lovers and others -- "Until I go to see that beautiful place" : hidden recesses of nature, the cosmos, the future -- "Our world has just discovered another one" : clashing continents -- Lost worlds? |
| Summary |
"The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe's greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne's Essays, Rabelais's comic fictions, Ronsard's poetry, Calvin's theology. These and numerous other extraordinary writings emerged from and contributed to cultural upheavals: the movement usually known as the Renaissance, which sought to revive ancient Greek and Roman culture for present-day purposes; religious reform, including the previously unthinkable rejection of Catholicism by many in the Reformation, culminating in decades of civil war in France; the French language's transformation into an instrument for advanced abstract thought. |
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This book introduces this vibrant literature and thought via an apparent paradox."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kenny, Neil. Introduction to sixteenth-century French literature and thought 9780715634875 (OCoLC)191753463 |
| ISBN |
9781472521354 (electronic book) |
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1472521358 (electronic book) |
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9780715634875 |
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0715634879 |
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