Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century : Inventing Renaissance France
Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century : Inventing Renaissance France
Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century : Inventing Renaissance France by Timothy Hampton
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Author: Timothy Hampton
Page Count: 288 pages
Published Date: 04 Jan 2001
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Country: Ithaca, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780801437748
File size: 33 Mb
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Assessing the relationship between the emergence of modern French literary culture and the ideological debates that marked Renaissance France, Timothy Hampton explores the role of literary form in shaping national identity.The foundational texts of modern French literature were produced during a period of unprecedented struggle over the meaning of community. In the face of religious heresy, political threats from abroad, and new forms of cultural diversity, Renaissance French culture confronted, in new and urgent ways, the question of what it means to be "French." Hampton shows how conflicts between different concepts of community were mediated symbolically through the genesis of new literary forms. Hampton's analysis of works by Rabelais, Montaigne, Du Bellay, and Marguerite de Navarre, as well as writings by lesser-known poets, pamphleteers, and political philosophers, shows that the vulnerability of France and the instability of French identity were pervasive cultural themes during this period.Contemporary scholarship on nation-building in early modern Europe has emphasized the importance of centralized power and the rise of absolute monarchy. Hampton offers a counterargument, demonstrating that both community and national identity in Renaissance France were defined through a dialogic relationship to that which was not French to the foreigner, the stranger, the intruder from abroad. He provides both a methodological challenge to traditional cultural history and a new consideration of the role of literature in the definition of the nation."
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Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century : Inventing Renaissance France by Timothy Hampton
Author: Timothy Hampton
Page Count: 288 pages
Published Date: 04 Jan 2001
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Country: Ithaca, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780801437748
File size: 33 Mb
File Name: Literature.and.Nation.in.the.Sixteenth.Century.Inventing.Renaissance.France.pdf
Download Link: Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century Inventing Renaissance France
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Assessing the relationship between the emergence of modern French literary culture and the ideological debates that marked Renaissance France, Timothy Hampton explores the role of literary form in shaping national identity.The foundational texts of modern French literature were produced during a period of unprecedented struggle over the meaning of community. In the face of religious heresy, political threats from abroad, and new forms of cultural diversity, Renaissance French culture confronted, in new and urgent ways, the question of what it means to be "French." Hampton shows how conflicts between different concepts of community were mediated symbolically through the genesis of new literary forms. Hampton's analysis of works by Rabelais, Montaigne, Du Bellay, and Marguerite de Navarre, as well as writings by lesser-known poets, pamphleteers, and political philosophers, shows that the vulnerability of France and the instability of French identity were pervasive cultural themes during this period.Contemporary scholarship on nation-building in early modern Europe has emphasized the importance of centralized power and the rise of absolute monarchy. Hampton offers a counterargument, demonstrating that both community and national identity in Renaissance France were defined through a dialogic relationship to that which was not French to the foreigner, the stranger, the intruder from abroad. He provides both a methodological challenge to traditional cultural history and a new consideration of the role of literature in the definition of the nation."
Read online Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century : Inventing Renaissance France Buy Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century : Inventing Renaissance France Download and read Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century : Inventing Renaissance France ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century : Inventing Renaissance France