1st Edition
The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England
By Hassan Melehy
Copyright 2010
290 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
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Examining both familiar and underappreciated texts, Hassan Melehy foregrounds the relationships that early modern French and English writers conceived with both their classical predecessors and authors from flourishing literary traditions in neighboring countries. In order to present their own avowedly national literatures as successfully surpassing others, they engaged in a paradoxical strategy... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Du Bellay: Defending the space of early modern culture; Time in Rome; A dream language. Part 2 Spenser: Translation, imitation, ruin; Visions of Spenser; Antiquities of Britain. Part 3 Montaigne: Institutional authority; The words of vanity; America, the end of Western dreaming. Part 4 Shakespeare: The Sonnets and time; Old and new Roman times; The representation of the other; Works cited; Index.
Biography
Hassan Melehy teaches in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published widely on early modern literature and philosophy, critical theory, and cinema studies.
