David Cowling

Building the Text

Architecture as Metaphor in Late Medieval and Early Modern France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Descriptions of imaginary buildings abound in late medieval and early modern texts in France. This book examines the reasons for their popularity and analyzes the way in which metaphors of the building were used by writers as a tools of persuasion. One such writer was Jean Lemaire (c.1473-after 1515) who used architectural metaphor both to praise his patrons and to advertise his own talents, while drawing on and transforming a tradition of writing popularized by his rhetoriqueur predecessors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780198159599
• ISBN-10: 0198159595
• Artikelnr.: 22377348

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations
* Introduction
* 1: `Il n'y a plus nobles logiz que sont cons': The Body as a Building
(I)
* 2: `Ung lieu de si grand seureté': The Body as a Building (II)
* 3: `Ferme estoit sans povoir trebucher': The State as a Building
* 4: `Colloquerons ceans le sien ymage': Architectural Metaphors for
the Mind and Memory
* 5: `Ce sont les huis et les cleres fenestres ...': The Text as a
Building
* 6: `Ung temple y a, plus beau ne vit oncq nulz': Fictions of the
Building in Jean Lemaire de Belges
* Conclusion
* Appendix: A Checklist of Architectural Allegories of the Period
1460-1540
* Bibliography
* Index