Jennifer H Oliver

Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Jennifer H. Oliver explores the extent to which depictions of the ship in sixteenth century France are freighted with political, religious, and poetic symbolism. She examines the ways in which the ship and the body are made analogous in Renaissance shipwreck writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780198831709
• ISBN-10: 0198831706
• Artikelnr.: 56261472

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Oliver is Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in French at St John's College, Oxford. Her research is centred on sixteenth-century French literature, culture, and thought. Her next project examines how French writers of the sixteenth century contemplated the connections and tensions between poetics, technology, and the natural environment.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: 'Le naufrage de ce mortel monde': Shipwreck and the Nef
* 2: 'À deux doigtz prés de la mort': From shipwreck to storm scene
(and back again)
* 3: 'Cet universel naufrage du monde': Shipwreck in a time of civil
war
* 4: 'Shipwreckful' afterlives: 'Naufrage' and Histoire
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index