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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198159404

ISBN-139780198159407

eBay Product ID (ePID)1046688

Product Key Features

Number of Pages336 Pages

Publication NamePilgrimage and Narrative in the French Renaissance : &Quot;The Undiscovered Country&Quot;

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEuropean / French, Europe / France

Publication Year1999

TypeTextbook

AuthorWes Williams

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight19 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN98-027486

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsInsightful and extended study ... wide-ranging and subtle study of the rhetorical dimensions of pligrimage ... admirably erudite ... positively original.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal263/.04244

Table Of ContentIntroductionPart I: Coming to Terms: The Subject of Pilgrimage [Renaissance dialogues, guides to pilgrimage, arguments against it]Part II: Being There: The Experience of Pilgrimage [narratives of pilgrimage]Part III: Forms of Return: The Afterlife of Pilgrimage [Columbus and others; pilgrims' fantasies and fears, professional pilgrims]ConclusionBibliographyIndex

SynopsisThis is the first full-length study of the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. It makes new material available and also provides fresh perspectives on canonical writers such as Rabelais, Montaigne, Margurite de Navarre, Erasmus, Petrarch, Augustine, and Gregory of Nyssa. Wes Williams undertakes a bold exploration of various interlinking themes in Renaissance pilgrimage: the location, representation, and politics of the sacred, togetherwith the experience of the everyday, the extraordinary, the religious, and the represented. Williams also examines the literary formation of the subjective narrative voice in his texts, and itsrelationship to the rituals and practices he reviews. This wide-ranging and timely new work aims both to gain a sense of the shapes of pilgrim experience in the Renaissance and to question the ways in which recent theoretical and historical research in the area has determined the differences between fictional worlds and the real., This is the first full-length study of the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. It makes new material available and also provides fresh perspectives on canonical writers such as Montaigne, Erasmus, Petrarch, Augustine, and Gregory of Nyssa. This wide-ranging and timely new work aims to question the ways in which recent theoretical and historical research in the area has determined the differences between fictional worlds and the real., This is the first full-length analysis of the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. Far from being simply a medieval practice, pilgrimage still mattered to readers, writers, and travellers in the Renaissance. Focusing on French literary texts, this is at once a piercing study in genre and a wide-ranging exploration of the politics of literature, experience, and popular culture., This is the first full-length analysis of the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture.

LC Classification NumberBV5067.W55 1998