Neil Kenny

Text, Knowledge and Wonder in Early Modern France: Studies in Honour of Stephen Bamforth

Nottingham French Studies Volume 56, Issue 3

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With eight contributions, this volume sheds new light on text, knowledge, and wonder in early modern France, which were more fundamentally intertwined than their modern counterparts.

Produktdetails

• Traditions in American Cinema
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 252g
• ISBN-13: 9781474424554
• ISBN-10: 1474424554
• Artikelnr.: 48697278

Autorenporträt

Neil Kenny is Professor of French at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Previously he taught at the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary, University of London. His publications include The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany (2004), An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century French Literature and Thought (2008), and Death and Tenses: Posthumous Presence in Early Modern France (2015). He is currently researching early modern French families that produced more than one writer.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Neil Kenny 2. Mandragore
racine de Baara
ginseng: littérature et émerveillement
Jean Céard 3. Un lecteur de Pierre Boaistuau
l'apothicaire Nicolas Houel
Marie Madeleine Fontaine 4. Quelques éléments d'alchimie péruvienne
Didier Kahn 5. Nostradamus à l'école de l'expérience
Jean Dupèbe 6. What Did Matthieu Beroald Transmit to François Béroalde de Verville?
Neil Kenny 7. Friendship and Rivalry in Science and Scholarship: Pierre-Daniel Huet and the Académies de Caen
Richard Maber 8. Carnival in Cognac (1520)
Richard Cooper 9. Poetic Deictics and Extra-Textual Reference (Mallarmé
Scève
Ronsard
Du Bellay)
James Helgeson