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Author | : D. A. Kress |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
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The opening years of the nineteenth century in France, marked by the constant turmoil that accompanied the rise of Napoleon, saw an increased interest in Ariosto's Orlando furioso. An eager but insecure public delighted in a work that gave tribute to France's greatest and earliest heroes as they saved her from her external enemies. A second, unintended way to interpret the poem paralleled the rise of Napoleon. The work provided an automatic, if historically inaccurate, mythology that effectively legitimized the first Empire. The fall of the Empire, coupled with the rediscovery of the Chanson de Roland in 1837, contributed to the gradual eclipse of Ariosto in French art and letters.
Author | : Harry RedmanJr. |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2021-12-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813195004 |
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The year was 778. Charlemagne, starting homeward after an expedition onto the Iberian Peninsula, left his nephew, Count Roland, in command of a rear guard. As Roland and his troops moved through the Pyrenees, a fierce enemy swooped down and annihilated them. Whether the attackers were Moors, Basques, Gascons, or Aquitainians is still disputed. The massacre soon passed into legend, preserved but at the same time expanded and interpreted in oral tradition and written accounts. Dormant after the late Middle Ages, the legend began to inspire literary works even before the discovery and publication of the Oxford manuscript Chanson de Roland in 1837. The French Revolution and Empire, temporarily relieving Roland of his religious aura, hailed him as a patriot belaboring his country's foes. The Romantics made him either a dauntless, irrepressible extrovert or a noble victim struck down while making the world a better place. As the twentieth century dawned, a few authors scoffed at hero worship but others held up Roland as a heroic example that might help his countrymen live with the humiliation of their defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and then, as World War I approached, retake their lost territories. Fascinating as the Roland legend is in itself, no one has looked into the nonacademic French literature to which it has given rise in modern times. Harry Redman now shows how writers, with varying outlooks and approaches and divergent purposes, drew upon the legend from 1777 to the end of World War I. A monumental enterprise based on primary research, the book is of extraordinary value to scholars interested in the Old French epic and to all those concerned with more recent literary periods.
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Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Criticism |
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Author | : Gustave Doré |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2012-09-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0486141012 |
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Great 19th-century illustrator's last major achievement: 208 brooding, surreal illustrations of magnificent, influential Renaissance epic poem. Jousting knights, damsels in distress, and grotesque monsters come to life under Doré's exuberant pen style.
Author | : John Albert Macy |
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Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Author | : Jennifer C. Vaught |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317169662 |
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Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England explores the elite and popular festive materials appropriated by authors during the English Renaissance in a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic texts. Although historical records of rural, urban, and courtly seasonal customs in early modern England exist only in fragmentary form, Jennifer Vaught traces the sustained impact of festivals and rituals on the plays and poetry of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writers. She focuses on the diverse ways in which Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson, Milton and Herrick incorporated the carnivalesque in their works. Further, she demonstrates how these early modern texts were used-and misused-by later writers, performers, and inventors of spectacles, notably Mardi Gras krewes organizing parades in the American Deep South. The works featured here often highlight violent conflicts between individuals of different ranks, ethnicities, and religions, which the author argues reflect the social realities of the time. These Renaissance writers responded to republican, egalitarian notions of liberty for the populace with radical support, ambivalence, or conservative opposition. Ultimately, the vital, folkloric dimension of these plays and poems challenges the notion that canonical works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries belong only to 'high' and not to 'low' culture.
Author | : Ludovico Ariosto |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 1975-08-30 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1101492805 |
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A dazzling kaleidoscope of adventures, ogres, monsters, barbaric splendor, and romance, this epic poem stands as one of the greatest works of the Italian Renaissance.
Author | : Lewis Carroll |
Publisher | : London ; New York : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
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First published in 1889, this novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland.
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Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Total Pages | : 1344 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : American literature |
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