Reforming French Culture
Satire, Spiritual Alienation, and Connection to Strangers
Reforming French Culture is a ground-breaking work on the literary genre of Reformation satire-colloquial, obscene, scatological-designed to mock the excesses as well as the essence of the Roman Catholic rite and hierarchy. Enticingly, Hoffmann proposes that while romance, with its episodic, heroic narrative, is the literary genre of Counter-Reformation, satire is the genre of Reformation. This minor category of Renaissance French literature is anunstudied continent that plays a key role, not only in French literature, but also in French history, and in the evolution of French culture more generally. From this deceptively small focus, the vol…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-253625-9
- EAN: 9780192536259
- Produktnummer: 29379487
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'375 KB
Über den Autor
George Hoffmann is Professor of French at the University of Michigan in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. He is the author of Montaigne's Career (OUP, 1998) and several articles such as 'Was Montaigne a Good Friend?' in Men and Women Making Friends (Ashgate, 2015), 'Self-Assurance and Acting in the Essais' in Montaigne Studies (2014), and the Oxford Bibliographies Online entry for Montaigne. In addition, he has edited anissue devoted to Les Biographies de Montaigne in Montaigne Studies (2008) and contributed several articles to the Dictionnaire Montaigne, edited by Philippe Desan (Champion, 2007).
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