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Auteur(s) : Oliver, Jennifer (1987-....)
Titre(s) : Shipwreck in french Renaissance writing [Texte imprimé] : the direful spectacle / Jennifer H. Oliver
Édition : First edition
Publication : Oxford (GB) : Oxford University Press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-223 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
Lien à la collection : Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [209]-220. Index
Texte remanié de : Thesis Ph. D. : Oxford (GB), Oxford University : 2014. Titre de
soutenance : Au milieu d'un tel et si piteux naufrage : the dynamics of shipwreck
in Renaissance France
In the sixteenth century, a period of proliferating transatlantic travel and exploration,
and, latterly, religious civil wars in France, the ship is freighted with political
and religious, as well as poetic, significance; symbolism that reaches its height
when ships-both real and symbolic-are threatened with disaster. The Direful Spectacle
argues that, in the French Renaissance, shipwreck functions not only as an emblem
or motif within writing, but as a part, or the whole, of a narrative, in which the
dynamics of spectatorship and of co-operation are of constant concern. The possibility
of ethical distance from shipwreck-imagined through the Lucretian suave mari magno
commonplace-is constantly undermined, not least through a sustained focus on the corporeal.0This
book examines the ways in which the ship and the body are made analogous in Renaissance
shipwreck writing; bodies are described and allegorized in nautical terms, and, conversely,
ships themselves become animalized and humanized. Secondly, many texts anticipate
that the description of shipwreck will have an affect not only on its victims, but
on those too of spectators, listeners, and readers. This insistence on the physicality
of shipwreck is also reflected in the dynamic of bricolage that informs the production
of shipwreck texts in the Renaissance. The dramatic potential of both the disaster
and the process of rebuilding is exploited throughout the century, culminating in
a shipwreck tragedy. By the late Renaissance, shipwreck is not only the end, but often
forms the beginning of a story
Sujet(s) : Naufrages -- Dans la littérature
Littérature française -- Avant 1500 -- Thèmes, motifs
Littérature française -- 16e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198831706. - ISBN 9780198831709 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45803416r
Notice n° :
FRBNF45803416
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