The Cornucopian Text: Problems in Writing in the French Renaissance - Softcover

Cave, Terence

 
9780198158356: The Cornucopian Text: Problems in Writing in the French Renaissance

Synopsis

This seminal book examines the interaction of literary practice and theory in 16th-century France in the context of the great Renaissance writers, Erasmus, Rabelais, Ronsard, and Montaigne.

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About the Author

Terence Cave is at St. John's College, Oxford.

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In the sixteenth century, Latin theorists and French vernacular writers shared a common preoccupation with problems of writing, its nature and status. This is an exploration of the shifting relationship between literature and literary theory.

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ISBN 10:  0198157525 ISBN 13:  9780198157526
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1979
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