Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 497 g
Architecture as Metaphor in Late Medieval and Early Modern France
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 497 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-815959-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Descriptions of imaginary buildings abound in late medieval and early modern texts in France as in other European countries. The vogue for allegorical buildings was, however, more than a literary fashion: by deploying familiar metaphors of the building in new contexts, writers gained a powerful tool of persuasion. This book explores the complex relationship between metaphor and allegory in the largely neglected but extremely rich corpus of writing that spans the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century in France, and concentrates on the output of Jean Lemaire (c.1473-after 1515), whose fascination with architecture played a crucial role in defining his self-image as a writer. By exploiting the semantic richness of the image of the temple, Lemaire was able to combine panegyric of his patrons with advertisement of his own talents and to promote an ideology of the self-conscious and self-confident writer that was to characterize the stance of Ronsard and the Pléiade in the poet-architect debate of the later sixteenth century.
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Weitere Infos & Material
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1: `Il n'y a plus nobles logiz que sont cons': The Body as a Building (I)
- 2: `Ung lieu de si grand seureté': The Body as a Building (II)
- 3: `Ferme estoit sans povoir trebucher': The State as a Building
- 4: `Colloquerons ceans le sien ymage': Architectural Metaphors for the Mind and Memory
- 5: `Ce sont les huis et les cleres fenestres.': The Text as a Building
- 6: `Ung temple y a, plus beau ne vit oncq nulz': Fictions of the Building in Jean Lemaire de Belges
- Conclusion
- Appendix: A Checklist of Architectural Allegories of the Period 1460-1540
- Bibliography
- Index
