Ullrich Langer (Madison University of Wisconsin)

Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ranging across a vast chronology, this book investigates how lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity. Considering some of the most celebrated texts of European literary history, the study will appeal to students and scholars of literature, especially Classics and French.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9781009225250
• ISBN-10: 1009225251
• Artikelnr.: 66152476

Autorenporträt

Ullrich Langer is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published extensively on the European early modern period, covering subjects ranging from friendship to pleasure and virtue. He is also the author of the Cambridge Companion to Montaigne (2005) and Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Orpheus in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca: three variations on lyric humanity
2. Marot's repeated making and unmaking of death
3. Time, pleasure, and reasoning: Ronsard's Mignonne, Madame de Lafayette's letter, and Baudelaire's passer-by
4. Flaubert's lyric happiness (L'Éducation sentimentale, Un Cur simple) 5. Lyrical recovery and return to the ordinary: Rouaud and Echenoz
Conclusion.