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An Introduction to 16th-century French Literature and Thought - Other Times, Other Places (Paperback)
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An Introduction to 16th-century French Literature and Thought - Other Times, Other Places (Paperback)
Series: New Readings Series
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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' 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.Neil Kenny here introduces this vibrant literature and
thought via an apparent paradox. Most writers were profoundly
concerned to improve life in the here-and-now - socially,
politically, morally, spiritually. Yet they often tried to do so by
making detours, in their writing, to other times and places:
antiquity; heaven and hell; the hidden recesses of Nature, the
cosmos, or the future; the remote location of an absent loved one;
the newly 'discovered' Americas. The point was to show readers that
the only way to live in the here-and-now was to connect it to
larger realities - cosmic, spiritual, and historical.
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